Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752517Ab1FNMi4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:38:56 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:62317 "EHLO mail-ew0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751109Ab1FNMix (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:38:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=MdGqgWqpU/qNLxBiMwgHsRiPDIwwCVcySgqZzGVcG9moCeJ62YkSIM9EgsiZw3tilg e3LMBkr9Rl0GEta1sDZ0Pkl0uU2pK4fPe8hkw1RH73BA9ye32DzEW3kFcwhq/duM/n2S QtgGD42ridXZ4IwqXoupVewughmGjTzNaUoAA= Message-ID: <4DF75659.5010000@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:38:49 +0200 From: Maarten Lankhorst User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110419 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denys Vlasenko CC: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 3.0-rc3 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1409 Lines: 37 Op 14-06-11 14:15, Denys Vlasenko schreef: > 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. > ~$ uname -r 3.0.0-rc3-patser+ ~Maarten -- 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/