Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936251AbXJQCe0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:34:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759483AbXJQCeR (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:34:17 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:37582 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751022AbXJQCeR (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:34:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:34:06 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Pavel Roskin Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Distinguishing releases from pre-rc snapshots Message-ID: <20071017023406.GA3397@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Pavel Roskin , linux-kernel References: <1192587763.3672.24.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1192587763.3672.24.camel@dv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 652 Lines: 18 On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:22:43PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > It would be nice to establish a rule to increment the version number > immediately after the kernel release and have a suffix to indicate that > it's a pre-rc version. "rc0" is my personal favorite. fwiw, rc0 is also what the Fedora kernel uses for versioning when we're shipping pre-rc1 kernels. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/