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Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 16:23:20 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder
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On 05/23/2011 04:17 PM, 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 <mingo@elte.hu> 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.
> 

That sounds like a good thing.

	-hpa
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