From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765427AbYEUQDZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 12:03:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759355AbYEUQDI (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 12:03:08 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43318 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759144AbYEUQDH (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 12:03:07 -0400 Message-ID: <483447A2.8060205@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 09:02:42 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: Oliver Hartkopp , 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> <20080521111637.GA5416@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20080521111637.GA5416@ucw.cz> 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 Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> Foo-gitX has always been a development snapshot which >> *follows* Foo. > > Well, unfortunately its not there in the makefile, so you can't tell > 2.6.25 from 2.6.26-rc0... > > Would 'rc0' make robots happy? > Pavel > It'll probably make some of them work and break others. It's pretty hard-coded in most of them that the flow is from 2.6.25 -> 2.6.26-{pre,rc}*; whether or not they permit a zero probably depends on if they know what is available or not (ketchup wouldn't be able to, for example, but the kernel.org incdiff robot *might* "just work".) -hpa