From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753940AbaIPVXx (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:23:53 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:49644 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752801AbaIPVXw (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:23:52 -0400 Message-ID: <5418AA54.9010704@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:23:32 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH , Tim Gardner CC: Kamal Mostafa , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [3.13.y.z extended stable] Linux 3.13.11.7 stable review References: <1410818997-9432-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> <20140916000309.GA8853@kroah.com> <54178FEB.3000606@canonical.com> <20140916012609.GB29475@kroah.com> <5418548B.9080609@canonical.com> <20140916181310.GB24080@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20140916181310.GB24080@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/16/2014 11:13 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > By the "trailing digit", i.e. ".y", only. It's just an aditional > number, not a "vendor version mark", like most packaging systems all > incorporate to show obviously that there is a difference from the > "upstream" release here. > >> I _want_ the consumer to be aware of where they have acquired their >> kernel sources (as if the git URL is insufficient). Frankly, if the >> version is an _enduring_ source of confusion, then perhaps the >> consumer should seek other endeavors. > > You are really trying to use the "if the user is so dumb to understand, > they should just go away" argument here? I value our users more than > that, they are the only reason we will survive over time. You will not > succeed by going around calling them names. > It is worth noting that we have a long-standing convention for these sort of things. It looks like x.y[.z]-XXn where XX is two or three letters, e.g. 3.13.11-km7. -hpa