Re: [PATCH] Makefile: version.h macros KERNEL_EXTRAVERSION, LINUX_EXTRAVERSION_CODE

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:34:03PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> Dne 20.6.2014 17:47, Kamal Mostafa napsal(a):
> > On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 11:39 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> >> Why don't you guys simply increment the third digit in the extended
> >> stable tree and get support for KERNEL_VERSION() for free? You always
> >> start after the respective stable branch has reached EOL, don't you?
> > 
> > Yes, we only start after the stable branch has reached EOL.
> > 
> > We don't increment the third integer for the extended-stable branches
> > (we add a fourth integer instead) in order to avoid the possibility of a
> > collision if Greg KH were to ever release a "special" post-EOL version
> > of one of his branches.
> 
> The maintainers of 2.6.32.y, 3.2.y and 3.12.y have taken that risk and
> it has been working fine so far ;-).

Those maintainers are doing so on the kernel.org infrastructure, with my
help and encouragement, unlike these Canonical "stable" trees, so their
risk was a lot less :)

thanks,

greg k-h