From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264286AbUHNRUh (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2004 13:20:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264265AbUHNRUh (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2004 13:20:37 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([209.173.204.2]:30348 "EHLO waste.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264286AbUHNRUf (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2004 13:20:35 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 12:20:08 -0500 From: Matt Mackall To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Willy Tarreau , Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.8 - Oops on NFSv3 Message-ID: <20040814172008.GD5414@waste.org> References: <20040814101039.GA27163@alpha.home.local> <20040814115548.A19527@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 04:05:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > Cane we make this 2.6.9 to avoid breaking all kinds of scripts expecting > > three-digit kernel versions? > > Well, we've been discussing the 2.6.x.y format for a while, so I see this > as an opportunity to actually do it... Will it break automated scripts? > Maybe. But on the other hand, we'll never even find out unless we try it > some time. We might avoid some of this (and communicate more to end users) by using the 2.4 -pre and -rc nomenclature, where a release is made by renaming an -rc kernel. As it stands, the current 2.6 "release candidate" naming is a lie - there's no intent to make it a final release. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.