On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:34:03PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: > 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 ;-).
Those maintainers are doing so on the kernel.org infrastructure, with my help and encouragement, unlike these Canonical "stable" trees, so their risk was a lot less :) thanks, greg k-h -- 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/
