Re: [kernel.org mirrors] [kernel.org users] XZ Migrationdiscussion

[Sleddens, J.P.G.]

>>> On 12-2-2010 at 20:03, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/12/2010 06:01 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
>> 3* Create a new subdirectory for every 2.6.x kernel, and move all the
>> related files there. This would shrink the main index drastically, and
>> each subdirectory would have a reasonable size (except maybe 2.6.16 and
>> 2.6.27.) Oddly enough this has been done for the files under testing/
>> already, so I am curious why we don't do it for the release files (and
>> the testing/incr/ files, while we're at it.)
> 
> Well, part of the reason why is that we're functionally "stuck" on 2.6;
> a prefix which really has lost all meaning.
> 
> It might open up the question if we shouldn't just do a Solaris and drop
> the leading 2 (so the next kernel would be 6.33) or call the kernel
> after that 3.0 instead of 2.6.34, and then 3.1 instead of 2.6.35.

I remember the whole LKML discussion about this a few years back:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/15/377 

The whole year.version   or year/month versioning Greg HK proposed
made a lot of sense to me.  It would also solve our problem with the 2.6
directory just growing and growing as the year versioning would make a
natural hierarchy which keeps going no matter what.

--
Jeffry Sleddens
Rotterdam University

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