Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261404AbVCCErX (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:47:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261342AbVCCErA (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:47:00 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:21472 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261265AbVCCEqo (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:46:44 -0500 Message-ID: <4226969E.5020101@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:46:22 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering References: <42264F6C.8030508@pobox.com> <20050302162312.06e22e70.akpm@osdl.org> <42265A6F.8030609@pobox.com> <20050302165830.0a74b85c.davem@davemloft.net> <422674A4.9080209@pobox.com> <42268749.4010504@pobox.com> <20050302200214.3e4f0015.davem@davemloft.net> <42268F93.6060504@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <42268F93.6060504@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 625 Lines: 19 If Linus/DaveM really don't like -pre/-rc naming, I think 2.6.x.y is preferable to even/odd. Just create a 2.6.X repo at each release. For bug fixes to 2.6.X, commit to this repo, then pull into linux-2.6. For everything else, pull straight into linux-2.6. The linux-2.6 repo would be upstream, and linux-2.6.X repo would be where bugfix-only releases come from. Jeff - 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/