Fedora kernel version numbering scheme

Hi Steven,

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Steven Newbury wrote:

> > Does someone know why a Fedora kernel  2.6.7-1.494.2.2 actually
> > contains code from a plain vanilla  2.6.8-rc? Rather confusing numbering
> > scheme :-(
> The way it works, as I understand it; is the Fedora kernels actually
> closely follow mainline.  Stable core (2) is resynced every couple of
> weeks (this may just include bug fixes), while the Fedora development
> kernel is synced nearly every day against Linus' bitkeeper repository.
>
> So 2.6.7.1.494.2.2 will actually contain at least the bug fixes from
> 2.6.8-rc. It is still 2.6.7 though until Linus releases 2.6.8.

Thanks for the explanation. What's LINUX_VERSION_CODE (aka "uname -a")
for the Fedora 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 ?

/Jörg