Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757986AbZJFRKO (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:10:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757942AbZJFRKO (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:10:14 -0400 Received: from Cpsmtpm-eml108.kpnxchange.com ([195.121.3.12]:57977 "EHLO CPSMTPM-EML108.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755092AbZJFRKN (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:10:13 -0400 From: Frans Pop To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:09:34 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: mingo@elte.hu, hohndel@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1254797502.14122.146.camel@dhohndel-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com> <20091006144449.GA23078@elte.hu> In-reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910061909.35878.elendil@planet.nl> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Oct 2009 17:09:36.0339 (UTC) FILETIME=[C80F0230:01CA46A7] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1454 Lines: 32 Linus Torvalds wrote: > And what people are suggesting with a 2.6.32-rc0 would just lead to > people now rebasing their work NOT EVEN ON A RELEASE. They'd want to > rebase it on top of that made-up commit (2.6.32-rc0), so now from a > development standpoint that commit suddenly becomes more important than > the release itself. IMO you're looking at this from the wrong side: the developer PoV. The request is made from a *user* PoV. Users very simply want to avoid that they accidentally install a merge window kernel over their stable kernel. IMO that makes sense. Developers are supposed to be able to take care of themselves; the mainline tree should aim to make things easy for users. I see the release versions purely as reference points. And -rc0 is obviously useless from that perspective, which is why it should be just a Makefile thing and not a tag. But -rc0 is IMO very useful to distinguish what kernels someone has installed. BTW, including the commit number in the version string has a major disadvantage: kernels will get installed *alongside* eachother instead of the newer kernel replacing the older one. Result is that /boot partitions fill up much more quickly. Cheers, FJP -- 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/