Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756934AbYCVCfu (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:35:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754082AbYCVCfm (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:35:42 -0400 Received: from sj-iport-3.cisco.com ([171.71.176.72]:56339 "EHLO sj-iport-3.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751677AbYCVCfl (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:35:41 -0400 To: David Miller Cc: jesper.juhl@gmail.com, 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 Subject: Re: [patch 07/76] NIU: Bump driver version and release date. X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <20080321224250.144333319@sous-sol.org> <20080321224333.400857992@sous-sol.org> <9a8748490803211710u4c5d1d67x2a5a891347e0adf6@mail.gmail.com> <20080321.171401.49157146.davem@davemloft.net> From: Roland Dreier Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:35:40 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20080321.171401.49157146.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:14:01 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.21 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Mar 2008 02:35:40.0445 (UTC) FILETIME=[6B434CD0:01C88BC5] Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-2; header.From=rdreier@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com/sjdkim2002 verified; ); Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 701 Lines: 17 > 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. I'm not sure if this series of patches really accomplishes that... you're leaving out some patches such as "[NIU]: Fix 1G PHY link state handling." that are in the real 0.7. So the 2.6.24.stable version 0.7 has a different set of fixes than the 2.6.25 version 0.7. - R. -- 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/