Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Linus Torvalds
2005-03-04T17:59:39Z

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 04 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > The average user has learnt "rc1 == pre1". I don't expect that it
> > > matters much at all.
> >
> > The average user and lkml reader, perhaps. But I don't understand
> > why Linus refuses to use proper -preX/-rcX naming
>
> Me either. And because people just will insist on arbitrarily dinking with
> Cc: lines, he's not listening to us any more.

I've long since decided that there's no point to making "-pre". What's the
difference between a "-pre" and a daily -bk snapshot? Really?

So when I do a release, it _is_ an -rc. The fact that people have trouble
understanding this is not _my_ fault.

Linus