On 01.08.2017 06:35, Yubin Ruan wrote:
Hi, I got a question regarding to Linux's version number. [...]
So, in this example, 4.2.7 would be thrown away after 4.4.0 is released. Is this the same for every major release?
I see a series of 4.4.x release, ranging from 4.4.1 ~ 4.4.49, at http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source which really confused me. Accoding to the model above, there should be only 4.4.7. After that, it would 4.5.x.
Look at https://www.kernel.org/ there are "longterm" branches, they are developed until EOL (end-of-life) for example, there is now 4.4.79 branch as i see this, some branches are selected to be "longterm", and they get the same set patches -- Best regards, Kamil Konieczny Samsung R&D Institute Poland