From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.0-rc1
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 15:59:38 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1306821578.7481.646.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinE8eSSovGx6CPPkTeCpqv8AsS2nw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 18:30 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Now, my alpha-maleness sadly does not actually extend to all the
> scripts and Makefile rules, so the kernel is fighting back, and is
> calling itself 3.0.0-rc1. We'll have the usual 6-7 weeks to wrestle it
> into submission, and get scripts etc cleaned up, and the final release
> should be just "3.0". The -stable team can use the third number for
> their versioning.
So a bit of bike shedding :-)
Why don't we just keep the 3 digits ? You release 3.x.0 and Greg
increments the last one ?
That means existing tools don't break, and number of digits doesn't
change all the time anymore, less likely to get wrong...
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-31 5:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-30 1:30 Linux 3.0-rc1 Linus Torvalds
2011-05-30 1:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-05-30 2:29 ` Américo Wang
2011-05-30 6:38 ` Boaz Harrosh
2011-05-30 20:03 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2011-05-30 22:48 ` david
2011-05-31 5:40 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2011-05-31 7:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-05-30 1:59 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-05-30 15:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-05-30 2:04 ` Greg KH
2011-05-30 6:39 ` Tarkan Erimer
2011-05-30 9:46 ` Miles Bader
2011-05-30 10:09 ` Anca Emanuel
2011-05-30 10:37 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-05-30 12:03 ` Wanlong Gao
2011-05-30 12:05 ` Zhang, Shijie
2011-05-30 12:58 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-30 2:07 ` CaT
2011-05-30 6:01 ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2011-05-30 6:43 ` [GIT PULL] small perf fix for v3.0-rc1 Ingo Molnar
2011-05-30 13:38 ` Linux 3.0-rc1 Camille Moncelier
2011-05-30 14:07 ` 15Hz
2011-05-30 14:33 ` trapDoor
2011-05-30 20:33 ` Mustapha Rabiu
2011-05-30 20:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-31 5:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2011-05-31 10:34 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-05-31 6:01 ` Dave Airlie
2011-05-31 9:23 ` Willy Tarreau
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-05-30 9:28 Sedat Dilek
2011-05-31 19:27 ` Sedat Dilek
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