From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758121AbYELThW (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 15:37:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754165AbYELThL (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 15:37:11 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57958 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753876AbYELThJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 15:37:09 -0400 Message-ID: <48289C59.5040401@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 12:36:57 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Hartkopp 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> <48288E4E.3080107@hartkopp.net> In-Reply-To: <48288E4E.3080107@hartkopp.net> 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 Oliver Hartkopp wrote: > 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? > Because it breaks all the robots which rely on the kernel naming scheme. Again. You already asked. -hpa