Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757648Ab0GGWTM (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2010 18:19:12 -0400 Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com ([65.115.85.73]:32591 "EHLO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756104Ab0GGWTK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2010 18:19:10 -0400 From: Shreyas Bhatewara To: David Miller CC: "netdev-devel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "pv-drivers@vmware.com" , Michael Stolarchuk Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:19:08 -0700 Subject: RE: [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net: vmxnet3 fixes [0/5] Spare skb to avoid starvation Thread-Topic: [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net: vmxnet3 fixes [0/5] Spare skb to avoid starvation Thread-Index: AcseHQjuM/wyewWDQ6GmTo95aZfumQABHeCg Message-ID: <89E2752CFA8EC044846EB8499819134102BD8D444B@EXCH-MBX-4.vmware.com> References: <20100707.144048.25140070.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20100707.144048.25140070.davem@davemloft.net> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1487 Lines: 45 > -----Original Message----- > From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net] > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 2:41 PM > To: Shreyas Bhatewara > Cc: netdev-devel@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; pv- > drivers@vmware.com; Michael Stolarchuk > Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net: vmxnet3 fixes [0/5] Spare skb to > avoid starvation > > > A couple problems remaining in this patch set: > > 1) Too many bug fixes for this late in the -rc series of 2.6.35 > Pick a smaller number of fixes, the most critical ones, perhaps > 2 or 3, and re-submit those for net-2.6 > > Pick the ones that produce easily triggers crashes or documented > regressions present on the official lkml regression list. > > Send the rest in for net-next-2.6 Could you please apply all the patches in the series to net-next-2.6, the patches will apply cleanly. Or would you rather have them reposted them with proper subject line ? > > 2) Bumping the driver version every patch in a patch series is > pointless. > Do the bump once, at the end of the series. The version numbers bumps although seemingly pointless (and harmless), make my life easy to track and maintain the bug#-to-fix mapping. Thanks. ->Shreyas > > Thanks. -- 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/