From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: version.h macros KERNEL_EXTRAVERSION, LINUX_EXTRAVERSION_CODE
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 22:34:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A49ABB.8070704@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403279278.14743.64.camel@fourier>
Dne 20.6.2014 17:47, Kamal Mostafa napsal(a):
> On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 11:39 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>> Why don't you guys simply increment the third digit in the extended
>> stable tree and get support for KERNEL_VERSION() for free? You always
>> start after the respective stable branch has reached EOL, don't you?
>
> Yes, we only start after the stable branch has reached EOL.
>
> We don't increment the third integer for the extended-stable branches
> (we add a fourth integer instead) in order to avoid the possibility of a
> collision if Greg KH were to ever release a "special" post-EOL version
> of one of his branches.
The maintainers of 2.6.32.y, 3.2.y and 3.12.y have taken that risk and
it has been working fine so far ;-).
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-20 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-19 14:44 [PATCH] Makefile: version.h macros KERNEL_EXTRAVERSION, LINUX_EXTRAVERSION_CODE Kamal Mostafa
2014-06-20 9:39 ` Michal Marek
2014-06-20 15:47 ` Kamal Mostafa
2014-06-20 20:34 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2014-06-20 20:56 ` Greg KH
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