Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266870AbUIOCmL (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:42:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266891AbUIOCmA (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:42:00 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:37560 "EHLO fire-1.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266870AbUIOClg (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:41:36 -0400 Message-ID: <1109.4.5.49.23.1095216021.squirrel@www.osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <41476413.1060100@linux-user.net> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:40:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] README (resend) - Explain new 2.6.xx.x version number From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: "Roman Zippel" Cc: "Daniel Andersen" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2-1_osdl_00 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 837 Lines: 24 > Hi, > > On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Daniel Andersen wrote: > >> This one ended up in the void last time without any comments. > > The funny thing is by the time people managed to apply the patch > correctly, they don't need to read the README anymore. That's correct for this time. However, if they have other kernel trees (in the future) with this patch applied, it can help. > Seriously, without knowing about the pre-patches, what would you expect > about the patch order if you found the patches 2.6.8, 2.6.8.1, 2.6.9? We have evidence that it's confusing to more than one person. ~Randy - 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/