Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Greg KH
2005-03-03T17:12:11Z

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:03:36PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03 2005, Chris Wright wrote:
> > > - Finally: this tree never has any history past the "last release". When
> > > a new kernel comes, the tree is frozen, and never to be touched again.
> >
> > I like this definition. The only remaining question is what determines
> > a 2.6.x.y release? One patch? Sure if it's critical enough.
>
> Why should there be one? One of the things I like about this concept is
> that it's just a moving tree. There could be daily snapshots like the
> -bkX "releases" of Linus's tree, if there are changes from the day
> before. It means (hopefully) that no one will "wait for x.y.z.2 because
> that is really stable".

So that means we do the release often, _and_ provide -bkX snapshots
daily if we happen to take a few days between releases and patches are
pending for some reason.

thanks,

greg k-h