Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262385AbVCCRML (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:12:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262210AbVCCRIz (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:08:55 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:30620 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262485AbVCCRHz (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:07:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:07:33 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Jens Axboe Cc: Chris Wright , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , "David S. Miller" , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Message-ID: <20050303170733.GB11268@kroah.com> References: <20050302200214.3e4f0015.davem@davemloft.net> <42268F93.6060504@pobox.com> <4226969E.5020101@pobox.com> <20050302205826.523b9144.davem@davemloft.net> <4226C235.1070609@pobox.com> <20050303080459.GA29235@kroah.com> <4226CA7E.4090905@pobox.com> <20050303165533.GQ28536@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <20050303170336.GL19505@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050303170336.GL19505@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1158 Lines: 26 On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:03:36PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03 2005, Chris Wright wrote: > > > - Finally: this tree never has any history past the "last release". When > > > a new kernel comes, the tree is frozen, and never to be touched again. > > > > I like this definition. The only remaining question is what determines > > a 2.6.x.y release? One patch? Sure if it's critical enough. > > Why should there be one? One of the things I like about this concept is > that it's just a moving tree. There could be daily snapshots like the > -bkX "releases" of Linus's tree, if there are changes from the day > before. It means (hopefully) that no one will "wait for x.y.z.2 because > that is really stable". So that means we do the release often, _and_ provide -bkX snapshots daily if we happen to take a few days between releases and patches are pending for some reason. thanks, greg k-h - 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/