Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:12:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:12:13 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:30925 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:12:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:17:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Adrian Bunk X-X-Sender: bunk@mimas.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de To: Tomas Szepe cc: linux-kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem logging macros, SCSI RAIDdevice driver In-Reply-To: <20020930102228.GB28157@louise.pinerecords.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 931 Lines: 31 On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > Technically correct. Major version jump should be made when there is > > a binary incompatibility. It can be made without, but it is usually > > done for marketing reasons. I hope we'll never have marketing reasons > > for lk. :-) We can be actually _proud_ to have 2.$BIGNUM instead of > > 3.0 > > ... and go Solaris, as in 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, 9. :D NetBSD still has sane version numbers: :-) 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 > T. cu Adrian -- You only think this is a free country. Like the US the UK spends a lot of time explaining its a free country because its a police state. Alan Cox - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/