Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:53:04 +0800 | From | "Dave Young" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Kernel version numbering scheme change |
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:26:19PM +0200, markus reichelt wrote: >> Why not just keep it? It has worked so far, and from a strictly >> end-user point of view I cannot see any advantages at all with a new >> scheme. The ideas mentioned so far don't cut it either. > > I'd cast a vote for keeping it as well. "2.6" is actually a great > marker so that people know that it's highly likely the version number > is for the Linux kernel. Contrast "I'm running 2.6.27" versus "I'm > running 27" (huh, what does that mean?) or "I'm running the 27 kernel" > or "I'm running Linux kernel version 27" or worse yet "I'm running > 2008-03". Something like "2.6.27" is just easier to say, and less > prone to misunderstanding/confusion. > > Let's just leave things the way they are.
Agree.
Additionally, we can add some range to x.y.z
such as:
x: 1-9 y: 1-9 z: 1-30
so we can jumo to 2.7.1 after 2.6.30
-- Regards dave
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