Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757639AbZJFRJ5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:09:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756674AbZJFRJ4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:09:56 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:57216 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755594AbZJFRJz (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:09:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:08:46 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Stefan Richter Cc: Linus Torvalds , Dirk Hohndel , Len Brown , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3 Message-ID: <20091006170846.GA9277@elte.hu> References: <1254797502.14122.146.camel@dhohndel-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com> <20091006144449.GA23078@elte.hu> <4ACB626C.8090503@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4ACB626C.8090503@s5r6.in-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.1 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.1 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -1.1 BAYES_05 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 1 to 5% [score: 0.0177] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1099 Lines: 32 * Stefan Richter wrote: > 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. I think you misunderstood - the + would just be a shortcut for the long-form precise version string. Ingo -- 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/