They already discussed about this few years ago, but they decided against a date-based versioning because that would have meant breaking a lot of scripts and pr

They already discussed about this few years ago, but they decided against a date-based versioning because that would have meant breaking a lot of scripts and programs doing kernel detection assuming the old scheme. [1] [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/358 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/358