From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ted Ts'o Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 19:17:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, DRI , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Greg KH To: Linus Torvalds Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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. - Ted -- 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