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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Versioning of tree
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:38:06 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098322686.21028.22.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0410200728040.2317@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 00:33, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Personally, I much rather go the way we have gone, because I don't care
> about module versioning nearly as much as I care about bug-report
> versioning. And if I hear about a bug with 2.6.10-rc1, I want to know that
> it really is at _least_ 2.6.10-rc1, if you see what I mean..

I have the same problem with reports. I'm not talking about -rc*, that
is fine, I know that a report against rc-* means and most user will usually
tell me rc*-bk* so that's ok.

The problem is just with this intermediate state between 2.6.N "final" and
whatever gets next until we go to -rc. The fact that it has the exact same
version as 2.6.N final means that I get confusing reports (and, but I know
you don't care about modules, but it's simply impossible to have both
the "final" modules and the "current top of tree" modules installed at the
same time, which _is_ painful).

When I was still doing my "pmac" tree, what I would do was to put -pre0
in the EXTRAVERSION after a release until I got to -preX or -rcX...

Anyway, it's your call.

Ben.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-21  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-20  6:49 Versioning of tree Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-20  7:22 ` Len Brown
2004-10-20 14:33   ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-21  1:38     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-10-21 15:33     ` Måns Rullgård
2004-10-21 15:48       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-21 16:49     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-21 17:10       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-10-21 23:03         ` kbuild (was Re: Versioning of tree) Jeff Garzik
2004-10-30 23:34           ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-25 23:47     ` Versioning of tree Ryan Anderson
2004-10-26 11:49       ` David Vrabel
2004-10-26 12:26         ` Ryan Anderson
2004-10-26 12:58           ` David Vrabel
2004-10-26 19:08           ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-26 18:04             ` Ryan Anderson
2004-10-26 19:11               ` Ian Campbell
2004-10-27  8:38             ` Ryan Anderson
2004-10-27 11:37               ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-10-20  8:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-20  8:39   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-20 10:36 ` Måns Rullgård
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-20 18:27 Chuck Ebbert

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