Why do we have a kernel with version number - 20X?

Veeti Paananen veeti.paananen at rojekti.fi
Sat Jan 19 22:50:25 UTC 2013


On 01/19/2013 12:55 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Joshua C. <joshuacov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Some  days ago the version number for the f18-kernels was changed to
>> 20x as in kernel-3.7.3-205.fc18. Is there a special reason for this?
>> Are the first 200 numbers reserved for something?
> 
> Yes, read the kernel meeting notes and I believe an explanation was
> posted to devel too.
> 
> Peter

And for those as lazy as I am:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2013-January/004061.html

> The hundreds series is speific to the fedora version. Currently f17 is
> 1xx and f18 is 2xx. The purpose is to keep f18 versions ahead of f17
> versions so that updates will work better.



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