Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261887AbVCCP7T (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:59:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261755AbVCCP7T (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:59:19 -0500 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:24567 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261887AbVCCP7R (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:59:17 -0500 Message-ID: <42273426.7030509@nortel.com> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:58:30 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: "David S. Miller" , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, 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> <4226969E.5020101@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <4226969E.5020101@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: 720 Lines: 18 Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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. For what it's worth, I'd like to add a vote in support of this. I like the idea of bugfixes being applied to previous versions (until the next stable one comes out, say). Chris - 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/