patch naming scheme.

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:14:42PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
 
 > In the X server I try to keep the original version the patch was against
 > in the name, to give some idea of how old a patch is.  Admittedly this
 > is less useful with the kernel because you guys have ridiculous version
 > numbers, but even just being able to see the difference between
 > linux-2.6.9-foo.patch and linux-2.6.27-bar.patch might be useful.

Way back when, we used to do that. But that kind of loses its meaning too.
For stuff that's never going upstream, you end up with linux-2.6.5-execshield
And for other patches older than 1 version, why aren't they upstream again?

	Dave
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