From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755293Ab0JVKLS (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:11:18 -0400 Received: from lake.fysh.org ([81.94.195.195]:46604 "EHLO lake.fysh.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753905Ab0JVKLR (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:11:17 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1062 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:11:17 EDT Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:53:33 +0100 From: Athanasius To: Al Viro , linux-kernel Cc: kevin granade , "Artem S. Tashkinov" Subject: Re: On Linux numbering scheme Message-ID: <20101022095333.GA10047@fysh.org> Mail-Followup-To: Al Viro , linux-kernel , kevin granade , "Artem S. Tashkinov" References: <18536664.253751287691209904.JavaMail.root@mail-zbox20.bo3.lycos.com> <28654042.253821287691362834.JavaMail.root@mail-zbox20.bo3.lycos.com> <20101022020006.GF19804@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101022020006.GF19804@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> X-gpg-fingerprint: E218CE1D X-gpg-key: http://www.fysh.org/~athan/gpg-key User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 03:00:06AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 07:06:23PM -0500, kevin granade wrote: >=20 > > Any particular reason not to continue the date-oriented format and > > have the third number be the numerical representation of the month > > rather than an incrementing numbering of the releases? It would still > > be monotonically increasing, which is the only requirement, right? >=20 > Why do we need to change it, anyway? /agree For the most part it's only distribution maintainers that see or care about the kernel version number anyway. Anyone else knows what they're getting into if they compile a kernel themselves, and otherwise is more likely to say they're using "Linux 10.10" right now .... Having said that I had a lovely suggestion in the last round on this topic which would allow you to know when a kernel was released just from its version number :). --=20 - Athanasius =3D Athanasius(at)miggy.org / http://www.miggy.org/ Finger athan(at)fysh.org for PGP key "And it's me who is my enemy. Me who beats me up. Me who makes the monsters. Me who strips my confidence." Paula Cole - ME --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkzBXxwACgkQSEDmQuIYzh2CKgCgm8K8jCgUseloE/a11aU37Yd+ EisAmgIWQYzH2WvNIa/TJgOni0amDj2h =mpVF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7--