From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Stoyan Gaydarov <stoyboyker@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
gorcunov@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:57:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487DA9E5.4020404@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0807160951000.26724@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
On 16-07-08 09:53, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Tuesday 2008-07-15 22:43, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> The 2.6. prefix is like with X which is version 11 for 20 years and
>> still counting.
>>
>> Or like with X11R6, that became X11R7 after 11 years, there might be
>> in a few years some big change that will warrant a 2.8 or 3.0 (the
>> rewrite of the kernel in Visual Basic .NET ;-) ).
>
> Jumping the major number would really require some big flag day.
> What was it that made the jump from 1.x to 2.0?
> (Some ABI change w.r.t. binaries -- ELF becoming standard maybe?)
SMP support.
Rene
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-16 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-15 2:10 From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7? Stoyan Gaydarov
2008-07-15 2:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 2:31 ` Stoyan Gaydarov
2008-07-15 2:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 3:55 ` david
2008-07-15 5:31 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-07-15 6:40 ` Rafael C. de Almeida
2008-07-15 7:23 ` Stoyan Gaydarov
2008-07-15 7:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-17 17:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-17 19:56 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2008-07-17 20:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-19 8:00 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2008-07-19 8:52 ` Rene Herman
2008-07-19 20:49 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2008-07-19 20:56 ` david
2008-07-19 21:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-20 8:34 ` Rene Herman
2008-07-20 14:53 ` Stefanos Harhalakis
2008-07-19 19:30 ` Peter T. Breuer
2008-07-19 21:16 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2008-07-19 23:10 ` Peter T. Breuer
2008-07-15 8:29 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-15 12:41 ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-07-15 13:18 ` Alberto Gonzalez
2008-07-15 18:06 ` Charles grey wolf Banas
2008-07-15 20:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-16 7:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-16 7:57 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2008-07-17 22:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-15 10:10 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-15 11:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-15 15:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-15 15:27 ` Parag Warudkar
2008-07-15 15:32 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-18 9:02 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-16 21:11 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-07-15 12:38 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-15 14:07 ` Byron Stanoszek
2008-07-16 21:14 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-07-17 0:03 ` Alex Chiang
2008-07-17 12:38 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-07-17 20:02 ` Alex Chiang
2008-07-15 14:24 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-07-15 16:36 ` Tobias Brox
2008-07-15 18:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-16 4:22 ` Rene Herman
2008-07-16 6:55 ` Rafael C. de Almeida
2008-07-16 7:17 ` Rene Herman
2008-07-16 7:30 ` Rene Herman
2008-07-16 9:34 ` Peter T. Breuer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-17 22:05 Alastair Stevens
2008-07-17 22:40 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-07-18 8:23 ` Peter T. Breuer
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