Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 04 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >  > The average user has learnt "rc1 == pre1".  I don't expect that it
> >  > matters much at all.
> > 
> >  The average user and lkml reader, perhaps. But I don't understand
> >  why Linus refuses to use proper -preX/-rcX naming
> 
> Me either.  And because people just will insist on arbitrarily dinking with
> Cc: lines, he's not listening to us any more.

I've long since decided that there's no point to making "-pre". What's the 
difference between a "-pre" and a daily -bk snapshot? Really?

So when I do a release, it _is_ an -rc. The fact that people have trouble 
understanding this is not _my_ fault.

		Linus
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