kernel naming & CREATED FIELD

[Dennis Veatch]

On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:48:52 PM Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> > Alright,
> > 
> > just had a talk on IRC with Ratler. Here's how it should be:
> > 
> > linux-stable = 3.1.8 (always the latest stable kernel as kernel.org
> > reports)
> > linux = 3.2.0 (mainline kernel)
> > linux-unstable = next-20120106 (linux-next)
> > 
> > Which means, that just linux-unstable is wrong. He also said:
> > 
> > "Only way we can go with a ultra stable kernel would be IF we decide to
> > actually go with stable/unstable moonbase :)"
> 
> I think we should follow kernel.org main page and name modules
> accordingly:
> mainline: 	3.2			linux
> stable: 	3.1.8			linux-stable
> stable: 	3.0.16		linux-stable-old
> stable: 	2.6.39.4		linux-2.6
> stable: 	2.6.35.14		linux-stable-2.6
> stable: 	2.6.33.20		linux-stable-2.6-old
> stable: 	2.6.32.53		linux-stable-2.6-deprecated
> Mainline would be always recent using linux module.
> 
> linux-next: 	next-20120110 only on gitweb not tarball. Released daily.
> I do not see any reason to implement this one. It changes too often so no
> use on server/desktop.
> 
> have a nice day,
> Zbigniew Luszpinski
> 
> _______________________________________________

I would be in favor of that method. Though I don't think we need that many 2.6 
versions.

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Dennis Veatch
Lunar-Linux Developer
http://lunar-linux.org