From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta7.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta7.messagelabs.com [216.82.255.55]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E226B0022 for ; Mon, 23 May 2011 19:23:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DDAEC68.30803@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 16:23:20 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 05/23/2011 04:17 PM, 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. > That sounds like a good thing. -hpa -- 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