From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 17:40:04 -0600 Message-ID: <20110523234003.GC26392@parisc-linux.org> References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> <20110523222121.GD12777@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, DRI , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , Andrew Morton To: Greg KH Return-path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:42544 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757807Ab1EWXkG (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2011 19:40:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110523222121.GD12777@suse.de> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:21:21PM -0700, Greg KH 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. > > I like that, it would make things much easier for me to keep track of > stuff. As long as 3.14 turns into a long-term support kernel and gets up to 159 ... In all serious, I'm very supportive of this move. I'm heartily sick of people claiming "we have version 2.6 support" when they really mean they haven't updated since version 2.6.9. Yeah, congratulations, you're seven years out of date. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."