On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

: That's what I meant to say. ;-) There might^Wwill be places where it
: actually matters, so it would be really bad to lose the information.

I believe it should be stripped, because the 1.6 branch does not have kernel
version increments (the way that 1.6A ... 1.6Q do).  _STABLE represents a
possibly changing codebase and is *not* useful as a reference point.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>