Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755663AbYGOKKm (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:10:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753373AbYGOKKe (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:10:34 -0400 Received: from smtp-out04.alice-dsl.net ([88.44.63.6]:24490 "EHLO smtp-out04.alice-dsl.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752645AbYGOKKe (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:10:34 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Stoyan Gaydarov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , gorcunov@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? From: Andi Kleen References: <6d291e080807141910m573b29b2t753ea7c4db09902d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:10:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:22:04 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: <87skubxxtq.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Jul 2008 10:10:09.0023 (UTC) FILETIME=[F61B58F0:01C8E662] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 648 Lines: 15 Linus Torvalds writes: > > So if the version were to be date-based, instead of releasing 2.6.26, > maybe we could have 2008.7 instead. Or just increment the major version > every decade, the middle version every year, and the minor version every > time we make a release. Whatever. Or you could just do it like emacs or Solaris and simply use a single number. -Andi -- 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/