From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <50B3CC90.8090800@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:09:52 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, Jacob Shin Subject: Re: [PATCH 168/270] x86: Exclude E820_RESERVED regions and memory holes above 4 GB from direct mapping. References: <1353949160-26803-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> <1353949160-26803-169-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> <50B3AEA1.9010802@linux.intel.com> <20121126200819.GD3331@herton-Z68MA-D2H-B3> In-Reply-To: <20121126200819.GD3331@herton-Z68MA-D2H-B3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/26/2012 12:08 PM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:02:09AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 11/26/2012 08:57 AM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: >>> 3.5.7u1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> >> What kind of version number is that? > > This is an "extended stable" tree, a fork from the last 3.5 stable > update (3.5 isn't maintained anymore by stable upstream). Thus > it seemed better to just follow last released 3.5 stable version, and > append an extraversion to it, which I chose in the end to be u > (u == update). It's unlikely that other 3.5 stable upstream update will > be done, in any case I expect this way to avoid any issue. > Why not 3.5.7.1 sticking with the pre-established version numbering scheme? -hpa