Re: [RFC] Kernel naming convention in the merge phase

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon May 12 2008 - 16:14:00 EST


Oliver Hartkopp wrote:

This is no real detail. How can -rc0 break a naming scheme for a robot,
when -rc1 doesn't?


Because of things like:

- regexp patterns like -(rc|pre)([1-9][0-9]*)
- using zero to mean "no rc/pre"
- assuming 1 is the immediate decendent of the previous one

So on, etc, yadda yadda...

-hpa
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