Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756007AbYCWEIS (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:08:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750727AbYCWEIG (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:08:06 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:39504 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750707AbYCWEIF (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:08:05 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:13:11 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Miller , 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 Subject: Re: [patch 07/76] NIU: Bump driver version and release date. Message-ID: <20080323041311.GA4663@suse.de> References: <20080321224250.144333319@sous-sol.org> <20080321224333.400857992@sous-sol.org> <9a8748490803211710u4c5d1d67x2a5a891347e0adf6@mail.gmail.com> <20080321.171401.49157146.davem@davemloft.net> <84144f020803221557t36502f6bo327c95705be706bf@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <84144f020803221557t36502f6bo327c95705be706bf@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 929 Lines: 21 On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:57:29AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Furthermore, I honestly don't see how your patch meets the (rather > strict) requirements of stable series either. So it would be nice if > one of the stable maintainers stepped up to say that these kind of > patches are okay to set a precedent for others as well. These kind of patches are perfectly fine. We trust the maintainers of drivers and subsystems to tell the -stable maintainers what they want added to the tree, and if that includes a version number update to make their lives easier, who are we to say no to that. Becides, it's not the first time patches like this have been accepted. thanks, greg k-h -- 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/