Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:25:45 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20100707.152545.22034265.davem@davemloft.net>
To: sbhatewara@vmware.com
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       pv-drivers@vmware.com, stolarchuk@vmware.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net: vmxnet3 fixes [0/5] Spare skb to avoid
 starvation
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From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:19:08 -0700

> The version numbers bumps although seemingly pointless (and
> harmless), make my life easy to track and maintain the bug#-to-fix
> mapping.

But in an upstream context, they make no sense at all.

Anyone running upstream, is going to run at the last version bump you
make in the driver, so what users report to you as the driver version
will be correct.

Please fix this.
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