> I presume you're referring to the likes of say kernel 2.6.21-gitX, which > was post-2.6.21, but pre-2.6.22-rc1? Crap. Hadn't thought about that > case. Okay, will have to do some further twiddling to cover that case... Yes, that's what I meant. Faking it as "rc0" might be the easiest thing to keep the scheme's release numbers increasing.