Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755621AbYGOPU1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:20:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753544AbYGOPUR (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:20:17 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60568 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753028AbYGOPUP (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:20:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:20:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andi Kleen 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? In-Reply-To: <87skubxxtq.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Message-ID: References: <6d291e080807141910m573b29b2t753ea7c4db09902d@mail.gmail.com> <87skubxxtq.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 19 On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Or you could just do it like emacs or Solaris and simply use a single number. No, that would be horrible. The only point of changign the numbering would be to make the numbers smaller. Not fewer. I don't like "26" much as a version number, I'd like "131" even less. So I'd much rather have something like "2.9.1" than "27", just because it's a hierarchy of simpler numbers. Linus -- 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/