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From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Cc: Erik Hensema <erik@hensema.xs4all.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Meaning of major kernel version number
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 16:59:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AEF4DCB.99D69E5B@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010501224943.A21208@hensema.xs4all.nl> <01050123011105.04685@idun>

Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday,  1. May 2001 22:49, Erik Hensema wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > A little question which may be a FAQ: what does the major version number
> > [1] of the Linux kernel (still) mean? What is the policy on increasing the
> > major version (eg. on what basis it is decided the next kernel isn't going
> > to be 2.6 but 3.0)?
> 
> Our great fearless leader will talk with the penguin beyond the sky.
> 
>         HTH
>                 Oliver
> -
One definition might be that it changes when user code must be relinked
to work with the next version.

George

      reply	other threads:[~2001-05-02  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-01 20:49 Meaning of major kernel version number Erik Hensema
2001-05-01 21:01 ` Oliver Neukum
2001-05-01 23:59   ` george anzinger [this message]

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