On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 09:28:33AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Oh, it's pretty much 100%. Oh good. > I can't imagine what would make me skip an rc8 at this point. > Everything looks good right now (but not rc7, we had a stupid bug), > but I'd rather wait a week than fins another silly bug the day after > release (like happened in rc7).. Yeah, -rc8 is clearly the best idea, why *wouldn't* one do it?! :-))) > We're talking literal "biblical burning bushes telling me to do a > release" kind of events to skip rc8 by now. If you do, it probably'll look like this: diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 992d24467ca0..5e8819b99110 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ VERSION = 5 PATCHLEVEL = 9 SUBLEVEL = 0 -EXTRAVERSION = -rc7 -NAME = Kleptomaniac Octopus +EXTRAVERSION = +NAME = Biblical Burning Bushes # *DOCUMENTATION* # To see a list of typical targets execute "make help" -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette