Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754725AbYJPBv7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:51:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753459AbYJPBvv (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:51:51 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.226]:11024 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753408AbYJPBvv (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:51:51 -0400 From: David Sanders To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:51:42 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20081016002509.GA25868@kroah.com> <48F692E9.2080008@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <48F692E9.2080008@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810152151.42950.linux@sandersweb.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 717 Lines: 17 On Wednesday 15 October 2008 09:03:37 pm H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > Yes, we can handle the major/minor macros in the kernel to provide a > > compatible number so that automated scripts will not break, that's not a > > big deal. > > > Personally I find that having a simple counter is kind of nice, simply > because one can talk about 27, 28, 29, ... and actually be able to rely > on it being stable. How about 2008.27.0, 2008.27.1, 2008.28.0, ... David -- 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/