From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47AD96B0011 for ; Tue, 24 May 2011 10:48:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 15:48:39 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder Message-ID: <20110524144839.GC30117@linux-mips.org> References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ted Ts'o , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, DRI , linux-fsdevel , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Greg KH On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 07:17:21PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > > 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 will require another bunch of changes to scripts that try to make sense out of kernel Linux version numbers. It's a minor issue and we might be better off doing something else than version number magic. Not last a new major version number raises expectations - whatever those might be. Ralf -- 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