On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 10:50:33PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote: > SUBLEVEL only has 8 bits of space, which means that we'll overflow it > once it reaches 256. > > Few of the stable branches will imminently overflow SUBLEVEL while > there's no risk of overflowing VERSION. > > Thus, give SUBLEVEL 8 more bits which will be stolen from VERSION, this > should create a better balance between the different version numbers we > use. > > We can't however use the original KERNEL_VERSION and LINUX_VERSION_CODE > as userspace has created ABI dependency on their structure, and we risk > breaking this userspace by modifying the layout of the version integers. > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
