From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757563AbYELShS (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 14:37:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755436AbYELShF (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 14:37:05 -0400 Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.161]:60513 "EHLO mo-p00-ob.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755216AbYELShE (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 14:37:04 -0400 X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 X-RZG-AUTH: jclyXLBJ10ZHTmMMskdeEV9K+qamm4K24+0GzTHYHnheuzKtvddXf0g44qopmNo= Message-ID: <48288E4E.3080107@hartkopp.net> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 20:37:02 +0200 From: Oliver Hartkopp User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Romano Giannetti , Linus Torvalds , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel naming convention in the merge phase References: <4818F093.3070105@hartkopp.net> <4819050C.9060800@zytor.com> <48198873.7030503@hartkopp.net> <481A06C0.6070500@zytor.com> <1210163964.14371.1.camel@localhost> <48282C69.2070006@hartkopp.net> <48286364.7010107@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <48286364.7010107@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Oliver Hartkopp wrote: >> >> Yes - this was also my intention. I don't have any preferences if the >> first commit after a release is named -merge or -rc0. But it should >> point out that we're leaving the former stable release. >> > > Either way it'll take a bunch of work. Can you give any details? Why does tagging a -rc0 create any effort for anyone - except half a minute for Linus? Oliver.