Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757780Ab1EWXVv (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 19:21:51 -0400 Received: from oproxy7-pub.bluehost.com ([67.222.55.9]:45537 "HELO oproxy7-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755782Ab1EWXVr (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 19:21:47 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=xenotime.net; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References:Organization:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=J+8wbq0WzIbN3HuIn9Wb981Io2yR8rx3bYw1ne0YCBUsPiOBQ1sfl+x9NVFg6wIsW3+tse6VVwX8GEsTdb5slTpr/LN/o3c6VEzpFx2HkEAsEaCEjizZR9mMmJ5AoEk7; Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 16:21:43 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: "Ted Ts'o" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, DRI , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Greg KH Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder Message-Id: <20110523162143.fdf2f2a7.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {1807:box742.bluehost.com:xenotime:xenotime.net} {sentby:smtp auth 50.53.38.135 authed with rdunlap@xenotime.net} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1112 Lines: 29 On Mon, 23 May 2011 19:17:21 -0400 Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 01:33:48PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > I really hope there's also a voice that tells you to wait until .42 before > > > cutting 3.0.0! :-) > > > > So I'm toying with 3.0 (and in that case, it really would be "3.0", > > not "3.0.0" - the stable team would get the third digit rather than > > the fourth one. > > If we change from 2.6.X to 3.X, then if we don't change anything else, > then successive stable release will cause the LINUX_VERSION_CODE to be > incremented. This isn't necessary bad, but it would be a different > from what we have now. It's just another little thing to break several scripts... --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** -- 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/