On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 10:00 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 09:54:46AM -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote: > > This is the start of the review cycle for the Linux 3.8.13.28 stable kernel. > > > > ** NOTE: This will be the last Linux 3.8.y.z extended stable version > > ** to be released and supported by me and the Ubuntu Kernel team. > > I know this is the last release, but I have gotten some complaints by > people who are confused by the numbering scheme you are using for the > Canonical stable kernel releases. Can you please use the EXTRAVERSION > field with a "-something" tag in it to differenciate from the "normal" > kernel.org stable releases? We'll consider that idea for future extended stable versions maintained by our team. Thanks, -Kamal > A simple "-ubuntu" or "-canonical" or "-fuzzy_bunnies" marking would be > fine, or whatever you want to pick. > > Everyone used to do this a long time ago when we had lots of different > kernel releases / trees floating around in the pre-git days, which made > things much easier to figure out where the trees came from. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html