Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266449AbUIOP3i (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:29:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266459AbUIOP3i (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:29:38 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:33488 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266449AbUIOP3h (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:29:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:25:01 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Roman Zippel Cc: anddan@linux-user.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] README (resend) - Explain new 2.6.xx.x version number Message-Id: <20040915082501.1ce2cc18.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: <41476413.1060100@linux-user.net> <1109.4.5.49.23.1095216021.squirrel@www.osdl.org> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 858 Lines: 25 On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:06:06 +0200 (CEST) Roman Zippel wrote: | 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? I have no idea. A decision was made and now there are some attempts to document it. Are you trying to ask for the decision to be reconsidered? -- ~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/