From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756844Ab1GJXJK (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:09:10 -0400 Received: from oproxy7-pub.bluehost.com ([67.222.55.9]:54814 "HELO oproxy7-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756814Ab1GJXJI (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:09:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=xenotime.net; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References:Organization:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=gLBHxp0BJjaE0zsHcxOeZoT5RjVJSoYaPLcffuz1J7gop3XnvlPTeU/i0RzTZtl9iryxe9RIC8GphtASLl65pZlZvaXeJFae8tyyD+le7tCNCho7dfjZCS6k276w6aMr; Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:09:06 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Jesper Juhl Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Should SUBLEVEL be removed for 3.x ? Message-Id: <20110710160906.952bb38a.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {1807:box742.bluehost.com:xenotime:xenotime.net} {sentby:smtp auth 50.53.38.135 authed with rdunlap@xenotime.net} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:07:13 +0200 (CEST) Jesper Juhl wrote: > Hi > > If the plan is that the new kernel is going to be 3.0 (3.x) and the > -stable kernels then get to tack on a third digit with EXTRAVERSION, then > it seems to me that the main Makefile should get rid of SUBLEVEL - or? > > Or is the plan to ditch EXTRAVERSION for -stable kernels and have them use > SUBLEVEL instead? > > There are a few scripts that need fixing if SUBLEVEL goes the way of the > Dodo, but I didn't want to start fixing those without a clear indication > of whether or not SUBLEVEL is going to/should die. > > So what's going to happen to SUBLEVEL/EXTRAVERSION? I cannot answer this, but I'd certainly like to see a clear answer since I also have several scripts that need such attention. --- ~Randy