Need help to understand Linux kernel source versioning systems

[Kamil Konieczny]

On 24.07.2017 14:56, vibnwis wrote:

> Being a newbie, I encountered the following scenarios when tracing
> build_kernel.sh script from eewiki. Would someone help me to understand why
> please? From my experience, I would to summarize the following scenario.
> 
> 1. First, source is cloned from
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git and
> checked for release version, "v4.10.17". Obviously it has no kernel tag of
> "v4.10.17", but "v4.10" [...]

You should stick to longterm or current branch,
see https://www.kernel.org/

note that stable can be End-of-Life = EOL

stable: 	4.12.3 	2017-07-21
stable: 	4.11.12 [EOL] 	2017-07-21
longterm: 	4.9.39 	2017-07-21

Best regards,
Kamil