Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932107Ab1FJPWw (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:22:52 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:40329 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757703Ab1FJPWu (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:22:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110610100339.GE22466@vostochny.stro.at> References: <20110609214241.GA4849@sepie.suse.cz> <20110610100339.GE22466@vostochny.stro.at> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:22:27 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT] kbuild fixes for 3.0 To: maximilian attems Cc: Ray Lee , Arnaud Lacombe , Michal Marek , pefoley2@verizon.net, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1091 Lines: 27 On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:03 AM, maximilian attems wrote: > > you have forgotten the rule that linus himself is allowed to break userland. :P No. But Linus _is_ allowed to try to fix problems. So what I'm trying to do is: - see if we can find work-arounds for known broken packages (by giving them a three-digit version number despite the kernel actually only having two digits) - if no such work-arounds can be done without excessive hackery, at least make sure that the packages in question know that they are broken, so that they get fixed and we can drop the third digit later even if we don't drop it at 3.0 itself. It does look like there are too many problems to actually make it call itself "3.0", and that's sad. That's not an excuse for not trying to get those problems fixed, though. Linus -- 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/