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.
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