From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933115AbZJFSf7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:35:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933106AbZJFSf7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:35:59 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:36770 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933105AbZJFSf6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:35:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 11:35:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Frans Pop cc: mingo@elte.hu, hohndel@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc3 In-Reply-To: <200910061840.57681.elendil@planet.nl> Message-ID: References: <1254797502.14122.146.camel@dhohndel-mobl.amr.corp.intel.com> <20091006144449.GA23078@elte.hu> <20091006144449.GA23078@elte.hu> <200910061840.57681.elendil@planet.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > > Enabling it by default somehow would be fine with me, but "compulsory" is a > step to far IMO. Users should always be allowed custom schemes. I do respect that - we shouldn't _force_ things if some people have special needs and do things differently and really need a very particular version number setup. That said, we might make it a lot harder for people to overlook this by mistake when they don't care or know enough. Maybe we can have three levels of the "automatic" version number, and make the third level ("no automatic sign of versioning at all") be something that you really need to ask for (eg you need to have EMBEDDED enabled to show that you want the whole extended config option setup or something fairly draconian like that). Linus