Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754785Ab1FJKDm (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:03:42 -0400 Received: from vostochny.stro.at ([78.47.22.85]:57933 "EHLO vostochny.stro.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752216Ab1FJKDl (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:03:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:03:39 +0000 From: maximilian attems To: Ray Lee Cc: Arnaud Lacombe , Linus Torvalds , Michal Marek , pefoley2@verizon.net, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT] kbuild fixes for 3.0 Message-ID: <20110610100339.GE22466@vostochny.stro.at> References: <20110609214241.GA4849@sepie.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1402 Lines: 31 On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:53:34PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote: > 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.) you have forgotten the rule that linus himself is allowed to break userland. :P in Debian an three digit 3.0.0 release would also be very much appreciated as dpkg will order wrongly 3.0.0~rcX to 3.0. -- maks -- 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/