Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932771Ab1EXOtY (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 10:49:24 -0400 Received: from h5.dl5rb.org.uk ([81.2.74.5]:50471 "EHLO duck.linux-mips.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752662Ab1EXOtX (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 10:49:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 15:48:39 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Ted Ts'o" , 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: <20110524144839.GC30117@linux-mips.org> References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1012 Lines: 22 On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 07:17:21PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > > 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 will require another bunch of changes to scripts that try to make sense out of kernel Linux version numbers. It's a minor issue and we might be better off doing something else than version number magic. Not last a new major version number raises expectations - whatever those might be. Ralf -- 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/