From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 16:21:43 -0700 Message-ID: <20110523162143.fdf2f2a7.rdunlap@xenotime.net> References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, DRI , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Greg KH To: Ted Ts'o Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 23 May 2011 19:17:21 -0400 Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 01:33:48PM -0700, 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. > > If we change from 2.6.X to 3.X, then if we don't change anything else, > then successive stable release will cause the LINUX_VERSION_CODE to be > incremented. This isn't necessary bad, but it would be a different > from what we have now. It's just another little thing to break several scripts... --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***