Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757551AbYGPJew (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:34:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754426AbYGPJep (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:34:45 -0400 Received: from smtp03.uc3m.es ([163.117.176.133]:43018 "EHLO smtp03.uc3m.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752960AbYGPJeo (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:34:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:34:37 +0200 Message-Id: <200807160934.m6G9YbG04620@inv.it.uc3m.es> From: "Peter T. Breuer" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? X-Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel In-Reply-To: <487D7781.6000407@keyaccess.nl> User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (Linux/2.2.15 (i686)) X-imss-version: 2.051 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-scanInfo: M:B L:E SM:2 X-imss-tmaseResult: TT:1 TS:-12.3070 TC:1F TRN:14 TV:5.5.1026(16034.006) X-imss-scores: Clean:100.00000 C:0 M:0 S:0 R:0 X-imss-settings: Baseline:1 C:1 M:1 S:1 R:1 (0.0000 0.0000) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 676 Lines: 16 In article <487D7781.6000407@keyaccess.nl> Renewrote: > I do believe the numbering scheme should at least ostensibly still be > feature driven, not be a fully robotic date thing. With the latter, you 2.6.9 was the last of a sequence of internally compatible kernels. 2.6.16 or 18 or 22 is the last of another such sequence (depending on what you look at) 2.6.24 probably should have started a new version number. Peter -- 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/