Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270466AbUJUBmQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:42:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270574AbUJUBl1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:41:27 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:58790 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270453AbUJUBia (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:38:30 -0400 Subject: Re: Versioning of tree From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Len Brown , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: References: <1098254970.3223.6.camel@gaston> <1098256951.26595.4296.camel@d845pe> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1098322686.21028.22.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:38:06 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1332 Lines: 30 On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 00:33, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Personally, I much rather go the way we have gone, because I don't care > about module versioning nearly as much as I care about bug-report > versioning. And if I hear about a bug with 2.6.10-rc1, I want to know that > it really is at _least_ 2.6.10-rc1, if you see what I mean.. I have the same problem with reports. I'm not talking about -rc*, that is fine, I know that a report against rc-* means and most user will usually tell me rc*-bk* so that's ok. The problem is just with this intermediate state between 2.6.N "final" and whatever gets next until we go to -rc. The fact that it has the exact same version as 2.6.N final means that I get confusing reports (and, but I know you don't care about modules, but it's simply impossible to have both the "final" modules and the "current top of tree" modules installed at the same time, which _is_ painful). When I was still doing my "pmac" tree, what I would do was to put -pre0 in the EXTRAVERSION after a release until I got to -preX or -rcX... Anyway, it's your call. Ben. - 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/