Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:09:52 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 168/270] x86: Exclude E820_RESERVED regions and memory holes above 4 GB from direct mapping. |
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On 11/26/2012 12:08 PM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:02:09AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 11/26/2012 08:57 AM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: >>> 3.5.7u1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> >> What kind of version number is that? > > This is an "extended stable" tree, a fork from the last 3.5 stable > update (3.5 isn't maintained anymore by stable upstream). Thus > it seemed better to just follow last released 3.5 stable version, and > append an extraversion to it, which I chose in the end to be u<n> > (u == update). It's unlikely that other 3.5 stable upstream update will > be done, in any case I expect this way to avoid any issue. >
Why not 3.5.7.1 sticking with the pre-established version numbering scheme?
-hpa
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