Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760778AbYGQUDG (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:03:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756873AbYGQUCz (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:02:55 -0400 Received: from g1t0029.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.36]:9728 "EHLO g1t0029.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756246AbYGQUCy (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:02:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:02:52 -0600 From: Alex Chiang To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Byron Stanoszek , Linus Torvalds , Stoyan Gaydarov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , gorcunov@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? Message-ID: <20080717200252.GB6376@ldl.fc.hp.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alex Chiang , Lennart Sorensen , Byron Stanoszek , Linus Torvalds , Stoyan Gaydarov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , gorcunov@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu References: <6d291e080807141910m573b29b2t753ea7c4db09902d@mail.gmail.com> <20080716211427.GH31126@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20080717000301.GD22919@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20080717123829.GJ31126@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080717123829.GJ31126@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 903 Lines: 24 * Lennart Sorensen : > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 06:03:01PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote: > > The short answer is that HP-UX decided to keep major number 11 as > > a branding decision, and has released updates such as 11i, 11i v1, > > 11i v2, etc. > > > > Most recent release was 11i v3, and if you do a uname -a, you'll > > see that you get a "real" version, like 11.31. > > So the 11 no longer has any meaning. Not exactly. The 11 implies an ABI/API guarantee to ISVs and some sense of "stability" (for whatever that means) to end users. Marketing fluff, yes, but I guess some people out there do care about that stuff. /ac -- 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/