From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:41:04 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> <4DDAEC68.30803@zytor.com> <20110524154348.27ba649d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4DDBEC91.8020004@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "jonsmirl@gmail.com" , Alan Cox , Jacek Luczak , Jan Engelhardt , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm , "Ted Ts'o" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , DRI , linux-fsdevel To: "H. Peter Anvin" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4DDBEC91.8020004@zytor.com> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:36 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > I think this whole discussion misses the essence of the new development > model, which is that we no longer do these kinds of feature-based major > milestones. Indeed. It's not about features. It hasn't been about features for forever. So a renumbering would be purely about dropping the numbers to something smaller and more easily recognized. The ABI wouldn't change. The API wouldn't change. There wouldn't be any big "because we finally did xyz". Linus