From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267630AbUHPOGY (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:06:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267643AbUHPOGY (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:06:24 -0400 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.172.17]:15011 "EHLO nevyn.them.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267630AbUHPOGT (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:06:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:06:10 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz 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: <20040816140610.GA24688@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Willy Tarreau , Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Matthew Wilcox 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/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i 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. This will break glibc's OS version checks. It won't show up as a problem now, since it's mostly used to ignore versions of libraries which are too new for the running kernel, and 2.6.8.1 is as new as it gets. But that code is going to think the version is humongously greater than 2.6.8 and 2.6.9. See Uli's response: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-11/msg00025.html -- Daniel Jacobowitz