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

[Chris Murphy]

On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosowski at nist.gov> wrote:

> On 01/19/2013 05:50 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote
> 
>>> 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.
> ..
>> Presumably as new kernels come out the base number will change to
>> reflect the currently supported versions of Fedora. So that for the
>> 3.9 kernel, f18  will probably be 1xx and f19 2xx.
> 
> 
> That's a pretty arcane scheme. Would it work to use 17xx, 18xx and 19xx instead?

7xx, 8xx, 9xx, 0xx,

The first number of a Fedora release seems mostly superfluous.

Chris Murphy