Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757866AbYJQSt7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:49:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757856AbYJQStG (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:49:06 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:38543 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755583AbYJQSst (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:48:49 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:46:57 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Steven Noonan Cc: Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change Message-ID: <20081017174657.GH2221@kroah.com> References: <20081016002509.GA25868@kroah.com> <20081016124943.GE23630@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20081016151748.GA31075@kroah.com> <20081016164602.GA22554@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20081017034717.GA28188@kroah.com> <20081017064751.GE22554@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi> <20081017075544.GB4850@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1103 Lines: 26 On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:16:38AM -0700, Steven Noonan wrote: > I believe some of Adrian's concerns are valid. Userspace programs will > indeed break, largely because some depend on build-time and run-time > checks for the kernel version being >=2.6.0 or >=2.4.0 and so forth. I > suspect the best way to prove userspace breakage would be to make a > branch of the kernel with a new versioning scheme (8.10, 2008.10, > whatever) and use that as the installed kernel while building a Gentoo > system. I suspect you'd see massive breakage. That would be trivial for me to test, IFF we want to do something like this. But again, that's a technical thing, that can be solved _IFF_ we want to change things. And that's my point here, do we want to change the current numbering scheme as people have expressed annoyances of the current one. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/