Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261764AbVCCOb3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:31:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261776AbVCCOb3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:31:29 -0500 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:24744 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261764AbVCCObZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:31:25 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:31:33 +0100 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Greg KH Cc: Linus Torvalds , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Message-ID: <20050303143133.GA14495@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20050302225846.GK17584@marowsky-bree.de> <20050302232349.GA9743@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050302232349.GA9743@kroah.com> X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1375 Lines: 36 On 2005-03-02T15:23:49, Greg KH wrote: > > This could be improved: _All_ new features have to go through -mm first > > for a period (of whatever length) / one cycle. 2.6.x only directly picks > > up "obvious" bugfixes, and a select set of features which have ripened > > in -mm. 2.6.x-pre releases would then basically "only" clean up > > integration bugs. > > This is the way things work today already. The only exception being the > networking code, but hey, networking's always been special :) That's exactly what I'm saying. It already works this way, w/o misleading the users and attaching confusing meaning to minor revision numbers. It could do with being more clearly advertised and sticked to, but that's about it. Don't confuse more. People are already way to confused on their own. If anything, if we expect a release to have ... interesting side-effects, Linus will find just the funny words for the release notes to say so ;-) Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br?e -- High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business - 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/