Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933361Ab1EYBOE (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 21:14:04 -0400 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:35589 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753979Ab1EYBOB (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2011 21:14:01 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.3-dev To: Jacek Luczak Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Linus Torvalds , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Ted Ts'o" , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, DRI , linux-fsdevel , "linux-mm From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> <4DDAEC68.30803@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1306285994_4707P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 21:13:14 -0400 Message-ID: <6043.1306285994@localhost> X-Mirapoint-Received-SPF: 198.82.161.152 auth3.smtp.vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2 pass X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=neutral-1, source=Fixed, refid=n/a, actions=MAILHURDLE SPF TAG X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=steiner.cc.vt.edu X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020205.4DDC57AF.0120,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2010-07-22 22:03:31, dmn=2009-09-10 00:05:08, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2266 Lines: 59 --==_Exmh_1306285994_4707P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 24 May 2011 14:30:59 +0200, Jacek Luczak said: > 2011/5/24 Jan Engelhardt : > > On Tuesday 2011-05-24 01:33, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > >>Another advantage of switching numbering models (ie 3.0 instead of > >>2.8.x) would be that it would also make the "odd numbers are also > >>numbers" transition much more natural. > >> > >>Because of our historical even/odd model, I wouldn't do a 2.7.x - > >>there's just too much history of 2.1, 2.3, 2.5 being development > >>trees. > > > > .oO(Though once 2.{7 or more, odd} trickle into the distros, it would > > become pretty much apparent that they are not devel.) > > > >>And then in another few years (probably before getting close to 3.40, > >>so I'm not going to make a big deal of 3 = "third decade"), I'd just > >>do 4.0 etc. > > > > While 2.6 has certainly worn out, already thinking of a 4.0 is highly > > reminiscient of the version number arms race Firefox and ChromeBrowser > > are doing currently. > > > >>Because all our releases are supposed to be stable releases these > >>days, and if we get rid of one level of numbering, I feel perfectly > >>fine with getting rid of the even/odd history too. > > > > If I remember past-time discussions right, ELF was the contributing > > factor to bump the major number to 2.0 back then; ever since 2.0, no > > similarly breakthrough-ing event has occurred. > > What then about BKL removal? Nice place to celebrate with version jump > and heaving some beers. Well, if we're looking at ELF-sized ABI changes, how about 3.0 be the release where we re-sync the syscall numbers on all the archs? ;) --==_Exmh_1306285994_4707P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFN3FeqcC3lWbTT17ARAv04AJkBCqmgJQk5Su57aDSar4uSGf4s4wCg4k/H +Qm5XV5rza4hbeoNy0XS7gk= =UhnL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1306285994_4707P-- -- 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/