Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264984AbUIOLGi (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:06:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264937AbUIOLG2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:06:28 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:9098 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264915AbUIOLGO (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:06:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:06:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: "Randy.Dunlap" cc: Daniel Andersen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] README (resend) - Explain new 2.6.xx.x version number In-Reply-To: <1109.4.5.49.23.1095216021.squirrel@www.osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <41476413.1060100@linux-user.net> <1109.4.5.49.23.1095216021.squirrel@www.osdl.org> 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: 628 Lines: 18 Hi, On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > 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. The question is what is more confusing to most of the users? What are the expectation of the average user? bye, Roman - 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/