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On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 21:52, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 	Wait, so ugly hacks that steal every remaining major
> 
> What hack to steal every remaining major?  Remember that Linus already said
> that there won't be new static majors anyway.

No vendor I have spoken too intends to care what Linus thinks about it.
Linus tried this in 2.4. We all got together to create a numbering
repository instead of letting Linus do it.


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