2.8.0? [LWN.net]

2.8.0?

Posted May 23, 2011 20:25 UTC (Mon) by yoshi314 (guest, #36190)
Parent article: 2.8.0?

it makes me wonder how many userspace tools or toolchains would break because of this change.

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2.8.0?

Posted May 23, 2011 20:49 UTC (Mon) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link] (1 responses)

They had enough time to prepare .. it is not like this discussion is new.
And anyways most stuff is FOSS and can be changed. If no breakage would be a valid argument we would end up with 2.6.2323.47 which is just pathetic.

What I would like to see is a "stable" versioning algorithm.

3.0?

Posted May 23, 2011 22:28 UTC (Mon) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link]

OK, so according to https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/405 there might be a scheme:

(int)(Linux age / 10) + 1

2.8.0?

Posted May 25, 2011 15:07 UTC (Wed) by jonescb (guest, #74600) [Link]

Anything that checks for Linux 2.6 explicitly is already broken by design.