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From: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
To: Romano Giannetti <romanol@upcomillas.es>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel naming convention in the merge phase
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:39:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48282C69.2070006@hartkopp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1210163964.14371.1.camel@localhost>

Romano Giannetti wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 11:06 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>   
>> Most of the robots don't have access to git.
>>
>>     
>>> For me a 2.6.25-gitX looks like a snapshot that leads to a 2.6.25.1 and 
>>> _not_ to a 2.6.26-rc1.
>>>       
>> Tough.  It's a naming convention quite old (we had -bk before -git, too.)
>>     
>
> What about a -rc0 as the first commit after a release? Will help a lot
> automatic installing scripts...
>
>   

Yes - this was also my intention. I don't have any preferences if the 
first commit after a release is named -merge or -rc0. But it should 
point out that we're leaving the former stable release.

Regards,
Oliver


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-12 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-30 22:20 Oliver Hartkopp
2008-04-30 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-01  9:08   ` Oliver Hartkopp
2008-05-01 18:06     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-07 12:39       ` Romano Giannetti
2008-05-12 11:39         ` Oliver Hartkopp [this message]
2008-05-12 15:33           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-12 18:37             ` Oliver Hartkopp
2008-05-12 19:36               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-12 19:48                 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2008-05-12 20:13                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-12 20:56           ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-21 11:16   ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-21 16:02     ` H. Peter Anvin

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