From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267986AbUHPWjr (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:39:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267992AbUHPWjq (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:39:46 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:60428 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267986AbUHPWjg (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:39:36 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Bill Davidsen Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.8 - Oops on NFSv3 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:39:45 -0400 Organization: TMR Associates, Inc Message-ID: References: <20040814115548.A19527@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1092695609 9581 192.168.12.100 (16 Aug 2004 22:33:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >>Cane we make this 2.6.9 to avoid breaking all kinds of scripts expecting >>three-digit kernel versions? > > > Well, we've been discussing the 2.6.x.y format for a while, so I see this > as an opportunity to actually do it... Will it break automated scripts? > Maybe. But on the other hand, we'll never even find out unless we try it > some time. So will we see 2.6.8.1-bk1 tomorrow, or 2.6.8-bk1.1, or ??? And what will 2.6.8.3 patch against, 2.6.8.2 or 2.6.8? I think you are perhaps over-solving the problem that an early -bk1 could have solved without breaking scripts and kernel macros. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me