Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760357AbYCVAQw (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:16:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753300AbYCVAQp (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:16:45 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.235]:35400 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753138AbYCVAQo (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:16:44 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=c4Inl/uIkI1w3GPxyWPkYy2wl6hAMsqS2FfmHIr9y2eMwpVdGWjMjofOf5Q1BT/fJ+lrxa7sXRfF0M5RtkKV9xewHMqDPBtXKmuoCaVbNh7Fgv9iBI6AwyGW/qI4tWXc8XijycdzZS3w/9Vg3tj68SHUEc4uXUxa5h+ailLKvxQ= Message-ID: <9a8748490803211716j333f40f1vdf9d1ffd0c67448c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:16:42 +0100 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "David Miller" Subject: Re: [patch 07/76] NIU: Bump driver version and release date. Cc: chrisw@sous-sol.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, jmforbes@linuxtx.org, zwane@arm.linux.org.uk, tytso@mit.edu, rdunlap@xenotime.net, davej@redhat.com, chuckw@quantumlinux.com, reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org, mkrufky@linuxtv.org, cebbert@redhat.com, cavokz@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, gregkh@suse.de In-Reply-To: <20080321.171401.49157146.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080321224250.144333319@sous-sol.org> <20080321224333.400857992@sous-sol.org> <9a8748490803211710u4c5d1d67x2a5a891347e0adf6@mail.gmail.com> <20080321.171401.49157146.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1365 Lines: 38 On 22/03/2008, David Miller wrote: > From: "Jesper Juhl" > Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:10:40 +0100 > > > > As I see it, this patch is quite trivial and does not fix any "real problem". > > How come this is suitable for -stable? > > > > I have no objections to the patch "as such", I just don't think it > > makes sense for -stable. > > > It makes a difference for driver maintainers when users > report bugs and we ask them for the version printed > by the driver so that we know which fixes have been > applied. > Ok, fair enough. > You know, if people are going to be jerky about this, > I'll just include the version bump in the actual bug > fixes which I sometimes do anyways. > > Thanks for bringing this up, it's a useful use of > everyone's time :-/ > Excuse me for reading patches, trying to spot problems and thinking about where they are applied and what rules apply etc. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- 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/