From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Turmel Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 19:53:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4DDAF394.7050405@turmel.org> References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, DRI , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Greg KH List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org Hi Linus, On 05/23/2011 04:33 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> I really hope there's also a voice that tells you to wait until .42 before >> cutting 3.0.0! :-) > > So I'm toying with 3.0 (and in that case, it really would be "3.0", > not "3.0.0" - the stable team would get the third digit rather than > the fourth one. A few months ago, I briefly considered suggesting that the demise of the BKL would be a suitable milestone for the numbering shakeup. But I am a mere mortal lurker, and I remember past flame-fests this topic spawned. So I chickened out. As a small-scale linux evangelist, I would sure like to skip the explanation of the version numbers. Phil -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from atl.turmel.org ([74.117.157.138]:37213 "EHLO atl.turmel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757695Ab1EXAMz (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 20:12:55 -0400 Message-ID: <4DDAF394.7050405@turmel.org> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 19:53:56 -0400 From: Phil Turmel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, DRI , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Greg KH Message-ID: <20110523235356.68UHRCsGQ98zoWeGaX6C9ViLhLOmW3OKyqLpJtXX_lY@z> Hi Linus, On 05/23/2011 04:33 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >> I really hope there's also a voice that tells you to wait until .42 before >> cutting 3.0.0! :-) > > So I'm toying with 3.0 (and in that case, it really would be "3.0", > not "3.0.0" - the stable team would get the third digit rather than > the fourth one. A few months ago, I briefly considered suggesting that the demise of the BKL would be a suitable milestone for the numbering shakeup. But I am a mere mortal lurker, and I remember past flame-fests this topic spawned. So I chickened out. As a small-scale linux evangelist, I would sure like to skip the explanation of the version numbers. Phil