Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751871AbWIGVxj (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:53:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751870AbWIGVxj (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:53:39 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:34517 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751851AbWIGVxi (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:53:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:50:36 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Pavel Machek Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 37/37] sky2: version 1.6.1 Message-ID: <20060907145036.1f2a7bc4@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20060907210346.GF29890@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060906224631.999046890@quad.kroah.org> <20060906225812.GL15922@kroah.com> <20060907192528.GG8793@ucw.cz> <20060907203426.GB556@suse.de> <20060907210346.GF29890@elf.ucw.cz> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1288 Lines: 35 On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 23:03:46 +0200 Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Stephen Hemminger > > > > > > > > Since this code incorporates some of the fixes from 2.6.18, change > > > > the version number. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger > > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > > > > > Not sure, one of 'stable' criteria is 'fixes bad bug'. What bug does > > > this fix? > > > > The previous 5 patches changed this driver, so changing the version > > number of it is acceptable to me. > > Well... I agree that version change is understandable, but it will be > also surprising for the users, and stable rules were quite strict with > "must fix obvious bug"... > I get lots of bug reports which are from distro and other kernels that cherrypick code from stable. How am I supposed to know if it is a new or old problem? - 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/