Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270740AbUJUPAx (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:00:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262406AbUJUO7F (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:59:05 -0400 Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([24.172.12.4]:65041 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270465AbUJUOiX (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:38:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:33:22 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, davem@davemloft.net, john.ronciak@intel.com, ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com, akpm@osdl.org, romieu@fr.zoreil.com, ctindel@users.sourceforge.net, fubar@us.ibm.com, greearb@candelatech.com Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.9 0/11] Add MODULE_VERSION to several network drivers Message-ID: <20041021093322.E29340@tuxdriver.com> Mail-Followup-To: Arjan van de Ven , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, davem@davemloft.net, john.ronciak@intel.com, ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com, akpm@osdl.org, romieu@fr.zoreil.com, ctindel@users.sourceforge.net, fubar@us.ibm.com, greearb@candelatech.com References: <20041020141146.C8775@tuxdriver.com> <1098350269.2810.17.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20041021082205.A29340@tuxdriver.com> <1098366370.2810.31.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20041021085509.B29340@tuxdriver.com> <1098367875.2810.36.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1098367875.2810.36.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>; from arjan@fenrus.demon.nl on Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:11:17PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1004 Lines: 25 On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:11:17PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 14:55, John W. Linville wrote: > > Again, I think it would have to be the maintainer's responsibility > > to make the version numbers meaningful. > > absolutely; however you're not the maintainer of all of the ones you > patched... and I still argue that until the number is meaningful > exporting it as meaning something is more harm than good. As you say, I'm not the maintainer. I just proposed the patches. It seems you are not really talking to me. Instead, you are telling the maintainers that by applying these patches, they should be committing themselves to making/keeping the version numbers meaningful? John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/