From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261377AbVE2S00 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 14:26:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261386AbVE2S00 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 14:26:26 -0400 Received: from titan.genwebhost.com ([209.9.226.66]:57305 "EHLO titan.genwebhost.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261377AbVE2S0X (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 May 2005 14:26:23 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 11:25:23 -0700 From: randy_dunlap To: sean@capitalgenomix.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, webmaster@kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel Version Explanation Message-Id: <20050529112523.17f6e8fa.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20050529140945.GA4815@cgx-mail.capitalgenomix.com> References: <20050529140945.GA4815@cgx-mail.capitalgenomix.com> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - titan.genwebhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - xenotime.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 29 May 2005 09:09:45 -0500 sean@capitalgenomix.com wrote: | Would it be possible to get an explanation of the new kernel version | format put onto the http://www.kernel.org website? If it's there and | I'm missing it, feel free to call me all kinds of silly names; but can | you please send me a link? Can you be more explicit in what you are looking for? If you click on 'prepatch', 'snapshot', '-ac patch', and '-mm patch', you can read some explanations. What is missing there? It looks to me like the word "stable" is overused on the main page at www.kernel.org . I would also prefer to see all of the 2.6.* kernel versions together, above the 2.4.*, 2.2.*, and 2.0.* lines. E.g. (however, this is too cluttered IMO; the prepatch/-ac/-mm links do this well without the clutter): The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.11.11 The stable kernel patchset contains only critical and security patches to the latest 2.6.x kernel. The latest prepatch for the stable Linux kernel tree is: 2.6.12-rc5 This is the mainline kernel where all new patches are added. If they are not critical, they usually go thru the -mm patchset before being merged here. If they are critical, they may be merged here first. The latest -mm patch to the stable Linux kernels is: 2.6.12-rc5-mm1 This is the development tree for 2.6 kernels. Patches are generally merged here for testing before being merged into the mainline kernel tree. The latest -ac patch to the stable Linux kernels is: 2.6.11-ac7 (see the -ac patch explanation) Thanks, --- ~Randy