Re: [GIT] kbuild fixes for 3.0

maximilian attems
2011-06-10T10:03:42Z

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:53:34PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Beside that, no matter what, you are about to break
> > `/usr/sbin/sensors-detect' (from my Fedora 14), which rely on a 3
> > digits version number:
>
> Is there really any compelling technical reason to _not_ have Linus
> release the kernels with a superfluous .0 on the end, with the
> understanding that the -stable team gets to increment it for their
> future releases? It'd make every kernel.org release exactly three
> dotted decimals from here on out, which certainly simplifies things.
>
> It seems like we're just borrowing trouble here by trying to drop it
> down to two numbers.
>
> (Not, mind you, that I give a damn at all one way or the other, but it
> feels like you all are going to be spending a lot of time tripping
> over poor assumptions in userspace rather than doing actual work.)

you have forgotten the rule that linus himself is allowed to break userland. :P

in Debian an three digit 3.0.0 release would also be very much appreciated as
dpkg will order wrongly 3.0.0~rcX to 3.0.

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maks