Well, since you can only get one of those kernels in two ways, there's a
very unambiguous naming policy.
- if you got one of the nightly snapshots, name it by the snapshot name
(I still call them "nightly snapshots", but they do in fact happen
twice a day if there have been changes, so that's not technically
correct)
So the last snapshot would be linux-2.6.23-git15
This is an exact name, because you can go to kernel.org and look up the
exact commit ID that was used to generate it (there's an "ID" file
associated with each snapshot there).
For bonus points, if you report a bug against such a snapshot, look up
the ID yourself, so that others don't have to do that..
- if you are a git user, and got it that way, just use the git name, and
use "git describe" to get it.
So my current head is called "v2.6.23-6562-g8add244" which tells you
three things:
(a) it's based on 2.6.23
(b) there's been 6562 commits since 2.6.23
(c) the top-of-tree abbreviated commit is "8add244".
Yeah, please don't use those names. They don't actually tell anything
about where in the cycle it is, and as you can see above, there's been
6500+ commits since 2.6.23, so saying "2.6.23-rc0" or similar really isn't
very helpful if anybody actually cares about just where in the release
cycle you are.
Linus
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