Kernel version 3 -- did I miss something?

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:36:04PM -0400, Scott Sullivan wrote

> Nothing in the way kernels are vetted or released has changed. It's 
> still the same incremental updates we've been having for a long while 
> now. Linus just wanted a change of pace in the numbering.
> 
> They use to say Linus would have to be nuts for the to be a 3.x kernel. 
> This was close enough as it made no sense other then he said it should be.
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/29/204
> 
> Same new-old kernel, just a flashy new number. Yay!

  Even that is causing problems.  You wouldn't believe how many build
files break, because they're hard-coded to expect 2.something.  Arrrgh.
This especially affects Gentoo, which builds almost everything from
source.

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