Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751502AbYJRWjG (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:39:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750984AbYJRWiz (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:38:55 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:44707 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750878AbYJRWiy (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:38:54 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:38:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Greg KH cc: Alan Cox , Steven Noonan , Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change In-Reply-To: <20081017214409.GB3585@kroah.com> Message-ID: 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> <2008101 <20081017214409.GB3585@kroah.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LNX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 704 Lines: 19 On Friday 2008-10-17 17:44, Greg KH wrote: > >Sure, but by then, the 2.6.521 release will be out and we could fix it >up by finally going to 3.0 :) There will be no 2.6.521. Simply because the LINUX_VERSION_CODE macro only allows for the 2nd and 3rd position to be 8 bits. (Hooray, which means we will _automatically_ get a 2.7 after at most 229 more releases, or 3.0 after at most 63973 more releases!^{*}) {*} If you find off-by-one errors, keep them. -- 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/