Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

[Alejandro Bonilla]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Ok,
> you know what the subject line means by now, but this release is a bit 
> different from the usual ones, for obvious reasons. It's the first in a 
> _long_ time that I've done without using BK, and it's the first one ever 
> that has been built up completely with "git".
>
> It's available both as a patch (against 2.6.11) and as a tar-ball, and 
> for non-BK users the biggest difference is probably that the ChangeLog 
> format has changed a bit. And it will probably continue to evolve, since I 
> don't have my "release-script" tools set up for the new setup, so this 
> release was done largely manually with some ad-hoc scripting to get the 
> ChangeLog information etc out of git.
>
> For BK users, I hope we can get a BK tree that tracks this set up soon, 
> and it should hopefully not be too disruptive either.
>
>  
Excuse me for being so uninformed, poor reader and so on...

Why is kb not used anymore? What happened?

Thanks for the time,

- Alejandro
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