Commit c517d838eb7d07bbe9507871fab3931deccff539

Authored by Linus Torvalds
1 parent feaf222925

Linux 4.0-rc1

.. after extensive statistical analysis of my G+ polling, I've come to
the inescapable conclusion that internet polls are bad.

Big surprise.

But "Hurr durr I'ma sheep" trounced "I like online polls" by a 62-to-38%
margin, in a poll that people weren't even supposed to participate in.
Who can argue with solid numbers like that? 5,796 votes from people who
can't even follow the most basic directions?

In contrast, "v4.0" beat out "v3.20" by a slimmer margin of 56-to-44%,
but with a total of 29,110 votes right now.

Now, arguably, that vote spread is only about 3,200 votes, which is less
than the almost six thousand votes that the "please ignore" poll got, so
it could be considered noise.

But hey, I asked, so I'll honor the votes.

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1   -VERSION = 3
2   -PATCHLEVEL = 19
  1 +VERSION = 4
  2 +PATCHLEVEL = 0
3 3 SUBLEVEL = 0
4   -EXTRAVERSION =
5   -NAME = Diseased Newt
  4 +EXTRAVERSION = -rc1
  5 +NAME = Hurr durr I'ma sheep
6 6  
7 7 # *DOCUMENTATION*
8 8 # To see a list of typical targets execute "make help"