Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 22:07:43 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: pavel@pavlinux.ru
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 3.12.12-rt19
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 02:55:20 +0400
Pavel Vasilyev <pavel@pavlinux.ru> wrote:

> No, because in positional number systems, an increase in the senior level,
> junior reset, but not stays the same. Mainline kernel and patches is senior level.

If you notice, there's no '.' between the mainline version and the rt
version. It's a dash "-rtX". What that number represents is the version
of the patch series for that release. We don't start a new version at
each stable release, but we do start a new one at each major release.

Thus, -rt19 is the 19th version of this rt patch series. When we rebase
on top of another major release, a lot of rewrites need to be done, and
we start a new version series.

Resetting the -rt number at each minor release would not be useful to
us and thus not necessary.

-- Steve
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