From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 20:00:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 20:00:50 -0400 Received: from mailgw.prontomail.com ([216.163.180.10]:37086 "EHLO c0mailgw03.prontomail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 20:00:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3AEF4DCB.99D69E5B@mvista.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 16:59:07 -0700 From: george anzinger Organization: Monta Vista Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20b i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Neukum CC: Erik Hensema , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Meaning of major kernel version number In-Reply-To: <20010501224943.A21208@hensema.xs4all.nl> <01050123011105.04685@idun> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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