From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757834AbaFTUeJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:34:09 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:34597 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757742AbaFTUeH (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:34:07 -0400 Message-ID: <53A49ABB.8070704@suse.cz> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 22:34:03 +0200 From: Michal Marek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kamal Mostafa CC: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , Luis Henriques Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: version.h macros KERNEL_EXTRAVERSION, LINUX_EXTRAVERSION_CODE References: <1403189058-24103-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> <53A4016E.9040108@suse.cz> <1403279278.14743.64.camel@fourier> In-Reply-To: <1403279278.14743.64.camel@fourier> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dne 20.6.2014 17:47, Kamal Mostafa napsal(a): > On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 11:39 +0200, Michal Marek wrote: >> Why don't you guys simply increment the third digit in the extended >> stable tree and get support for KERNEL_VERSION() for free? You always >> start after the respective stable branch has reached EOL, don't you? > > Yes, we only start after the stable branch has reached EOL. > > We don't increment the third integer for the extended-stable branches > (we add a fourth integer instead) in order to avoid the possibility of a > collision if Greg KH were to ever release a "special" post-EOL version > of one of his branches. The maintainers of 2.6.32.y, 3.2.y and 3.12.y have taken that risk and it has been working fine so far ;-). Michal