Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751826Ab1FJFyI (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:54:08 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:59302 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750864Ab1FJFyG (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:54:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; b=KflTOFH0u+XGTHcht3ddkMMpPgpp0hvtZZJcdRVlucVTqmYn50Nny/4EuMc8spuCFI KPBANFV3t2O9XKXNn/UqUQ6gS507QkbUcq0iUG9VbrGUfNspC6I+YdQqoCZ+ADyBAUlo L9x+nR1My4TXWWXFruei43oQsH3pHWJ2wBGKk= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20110609214241.GA4849@sepie.suse.cz> From: Ray Lee Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 22:53:34 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: GQrEPA2f5jPn4HHAn_bvpeQ6V80 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT] kbuild fixes for 3.0 To: Arnaud Lacombe Cc: Linus Torvalds , Michal Marek , pefoley2@verizon.net, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1104 Lines: 24 On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Beside that, no matter what, you are about to break > `/usr/sbin/sensors-detect' (from my Fedora 14), which rely on a 3 > digits version number: Is there really any compelling technical reason to _not_ have Linus release the kernels with a superfluous .0 on the end, with the understanding that the -stable team gets to increment it for their future releases? It'd make every kernel.org release exactly three dotted decimals from here on out, which certainly simplifies things. It seems like we're just borrowing trouble here by trying to drop it down to two numbers. (Not, mind you, that I give a damn at all one way or the other, but it feels like you all are going to be spending a lot of time tripping over poor assumptions in userspace rather than doing actual work.) ~r. -- 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/