Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757910AbZJFPbg (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:31:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757859AbZJFPbf (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:31:35 -0400 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:34030 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757858AbZJFPbf (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:31:35 -0400 Message-ID: <4ACB626C.8090503@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:29:48 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Linus Torvalds , Dirk Hohndel , Len Brown , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3 References: <1254797502.14122.146.camel@dhohndel-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com> <20091006144449.GA23078@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20091006144449.GA23078@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 961 Lines: 28 Ingo Molnar wrote: > I.e. i think it's a fact that right now our release version is highly > deceptive during the merge window. [...] > One option would be to make LOCALVERSION_AUTO compulsory. > > Or to add a tweak to the naming, something like: > > v2.6.31 > v2.6.31+ > v2.6.32-rc1 > v2.6.32-rc1+ [...] > ... for the sole purpose of warning people that anything they pull after > v2.6.31 got released is (wildly!) not vanilla v2.6.31 anymore. If this scheme is meant to be something on which people can rely on, everybody who commits to a tree from which Linus pulls from would have to base their branches onto those ...+ commits, always. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= =-=- --==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/