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From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Date:   Thu, 3 Oct 2019 11:14:53 -0400
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <grekh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 5.3.y stable branch has been bumped to 5.3.3?
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 11:12:37AM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> Hi Greg, I'm seeing what looks like an extra commit [1] in the 5.3.y branch
> post the 5.3.2 tag, bumping version in the Makefile to 5.3.3.
> Historically the version bump has only happened once all the stable
> patches have been applied and the new version is getting tagged -- is
> this a mistake or intentional change in process to pre-bump the version?
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=linux-5.3.y&id=9c30694424ee15cc30a23f92a913d5322b9e5bd3
> 
> Thanks.

Err, sorry about the noise, just saw your note from Tuesday.