Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755290Ab1FNMQA (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:16:00 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:55492 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754681Ab1FNMP7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:15:59 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=W2CYmurfI9ZWKGECxEJTv9LJq0BDg3JdlByrMku4ZIY78OYLWA+R7lOutt4W1BPtiy uceOvSgKdZlaccWny9mJ6e38YkiHH2U2Mi7YOxe/7Hpe22aFkMHqTBSHDwkBVhMz1OQw VmP1A48p0zuMAEUN6c00H5Eldqgxvv9I3DMaA= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Denys Vlasenko Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:15:37 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Linux 3.0-rc3 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List 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: 1292 Lines: 35 On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > .. and this time even with a timely tar-ball, since I'm not traveling any more. > > What do we have in it? More than in -rc2. I'm clearly not the only one > who was in Japan for LinuxCon, or something else just made people wake > up. Linus, I know I run a risk of being not the first person to ask this, but anyway. I've got a patch for my project to fix parsing of kernel version which has only two numbers. Basically, - scanf(ver, "%u.%u.%u", &a, &b, &c) + sscanf(ver, "%u.%u", &a, &b) I can take it, but it made me thinking: how many other projects will be similarly affected? Must be hundreds, even thousands. I propose to still use three digits. I mean, if you want to use 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 numbering for your releases and leave third digit for stable series, just number them 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 3.2.0 instead. This way, many userspace projects will need less patching in order to work with 3.x. In many cases, they can avoid patching altogether. -- vda -- 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/