From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
Cc: Romano Giannetti <romanol@upcomillas.es>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel naming convention in the merge phase
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:13:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4828A4CF.9010103@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48289F00.9010406@hartkopp.net>
Oliver Hartkopp wrote:
>
> This is no real detail. How can -rc0 break a naming scheme for a robot,
> when -rc1 doesn't?
>
Because of things like:
- regexp patterns like -(rc|pre)([1-9][0-9]*)
- using zero to mean "no rc/pre"
- assuming 1 is the immediate decendent of the previous one
So on, etc, yadda yadda...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-12 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-30 22:20 [RFC] Kernel naming convention in the merge phase Oliver Hartkopp
2008-04-30 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-01 9:08 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2008-05-01 18:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-07 12:39 ` Romano Giannetti
2008-05-12 11:39 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2008-05-12 15:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-12 18:37 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2008-05-12 19:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-12 19:48 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2008-05-12 20:13 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-05-12 20:56 ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-21 11:16 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-21 16:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
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