Dne 20.6.2014 17:47, Kamal Mostafa napsal(a): > On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 11:39 +0200, Michal Marek wrote: >> Why don't you guys simply increment the third digit in the extended >> stable tree and get support for KERNEL_VERSION() for free? You always >> start after the respective stable branch has reached EOL, don't you? > > Yes, we only start after the stable branch has reached EOL. > > We don't increment the third integer for the extended-stable branches > (we add a fourth integer instead) in order to avoid the possibility of a > collision if Greg KH were to ever release a "special" post-EOL version > of one of his branches.
The maintainers of 2.6.32.y, 3.2.y and 3.12.y have taken that risk and it has been working fine so far ;-). Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
