Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755008AbYJQVsc (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:48:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754868AbYJQVsL (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:48:11 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:56383 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752194AbYJQVsK (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:48:10 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:44:09 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Alan Cox Cc: Steven Noonan , Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change Message-ID: <20081017214409.GB3585@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> <20081017174657.GH2221@kroah.com> <20081017204723.15114eaa@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081017204723.15114eaa@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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: 1134 Lines: 28 On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 08:47:23PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > And that's my point here, do we want to change the current numbering > > scheme as people have expressed annoyances of the current one. > > But any new scheme will be just as annoying to someone and it messes up > existing documentation, understanding and risks breaking third party > tools. > > Is it really worth the hassle, plus we'll have to change again if we use > date/times because once we are shipping Linux out to Alpha Centauri with > colonists there will be serious problems trying to compute the effect of > tau on release numbering ... Sure, but by then, the 2.6.521 release will be out and we could fix it up by finally going to 3.0 :) Seriously, am I the only one that is getting annoyed by our version numbers? If so, I can live with it, but I got the feeling that I wasn't alone here. 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/