Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:45:51 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem logging macros, SCSI RAIDdevice driver |
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On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > For 2.6.x I care about getting the drivers _working_. > > Tangent question, is it definitely to be named 2.6?
I see no real reason to call it 3.0.
The order-of-magnitude threading improvements might just come closest to being a "new thing", but yeah, I still consider it 2.6.x. We don't have new architectures or other really fundamental stuff. In many ways the jump from 2.2 -> 2.4 was bigger than the 2.4 -> 2.6 thing will be, I suspect.
But hey, it's just a number. I don't feel that strongly either way. I think version number inflation (can anybody say "distribution makers"?) is a bit silly, and the way the kernel numbering works there is no reason to bump the major number for regular releases.
Linus
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