From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Documentation <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Workflows <workflows@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Dante Strock <dantestrock@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: process: Do not hardcode kernel major version number
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:20:15 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b81b16da-5031-4c26-821d-e7bc564dac0d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5fcf5f4a-1bbf-458e-8aab-8c66d326fd17@infradead.org>
On 9/14/25 13:10, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Do we use the word "supermajor" anywhere?
> $ grep ...
> Nope.
>
> How about we call it MAJOR (like the top-level Makefile does; well, it calls it
> both VERSION and MAJOR[1]), so use
> m.x
>
That's more sense (and that is indeed the term I use in the patch subject).
Thanks.
--
An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-14 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-13 1:51 [PATCH] Documentation: process: Do not hardcode kernel major version number Bagas Sanjaya
2025-09-13 21:40 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-09-14 3:18 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2025-09-14 6:10 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-09-14 7:20 ` Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
2025-09-16 16:07 ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-09-18 3:37 ` Bagas Sanjaya
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