From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: (Short?) merge window reminder Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 15:48:39 +0100 Message-ID: <20110524144839.GC30117__9347.01162991605$1306311902$gmane$org@linux-mips.org> References: <20110523192056.GC23629@elte.hu> <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from duck.linux-mips.net (h5.dl5rb.org.uk [81.2.74.5]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECCC39E732 for ; Tue, 24 May 2011 08:14:39 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110523231721.GM10009@thunk.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces+sf-dri-devel=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Ted Ts'o , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-arch@vger.kern List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 07:17:21PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > > So I'm toying with 3.0 (and in that case, it really would be "3.0", > > not "3.0.0" - the stable team would get the third digit rather than > > the fourth one. > > If we change from 2.6.X to 3.X, then if we don't change anything else, > then successive stable release will cause the LINUX_VERSION_CODE to be > incremented. This isn't necessary bad, but it would be a different > from what we have now. It will require another bunch of changes to scripts that try to make sense out of kernel Linux version numbers. It's a minor issue and we might be better off doing something else than version number magic. Not last a new major version number raises expectations - whatever those might be. Ralf