From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@fenrus.demon.nl>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jgarzik@pobox.com, davem@davemloft.net, john.ronciak@intel.com,
ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com, akpm@osdl.org, romieu@fr.zoreil.com,
ctindel@users.sourceforge.net, fubar@us.ibm.com,
greearb@candelatech.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.9 0/11] Add MODULE_VERSION to several network drivers
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:33:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041021093322.E29340@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098367875.2810.36.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>; from arjan@fenrus.demon.nl on Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:11:17PM +0200
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:11:17PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 14:55, John W. Linville wrote:
> > Again, I think it would have to be the maintainer's responsibility
> > to make the version numbers meaningful.
>
> absolutely; however you're not the maintainer of all of the ones you
> patched... and I still argue that until the number is meaningful
> exporting it as meaning something is more harm than good.
As you say, I'm not the maintainer. I just proposed the patches.
It seems you are not really talking to me. Instead, you are telling the
maintainers that by applying these patches, they should be committing
themselves to making/keeping the version numbers meaningful?
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-21 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-20 18:11 [patch 2.6.9 0/11] Add MODULE_VERSION to several network drivers John W. Linville
2004-10-20 18:14 ` [patch 2.6.9 1/11] tg3: Add MODULE_VERSION John W. Linville
2004-10-20 18:33 ` John W. Linville
2004-10-21 4:24 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-20 18:15 ` [patch 2.6.9 2/11] e100: " John W. Linville
2004-10-20 18:34 ` John W. Linville
2004-10-20 18:16 ` [patch 2.6.9 3/11] e1000: " John W. Linville
2004-10-20 18:35 ` John W. Linville
2004-10-20 18:17 ` [patch 2.6.9 4/11] b44: " John W. Linville
2004-10-20 18:36 ` John W. Linville
2004-10-21 4:25 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-20 18:20 ` [patch 2.6.9 5/11] tulip: " John W. Linville
2004-10-20 18:21 ` [patch 2.6.9 6/11] 3c59x: " John W. Linville
2004-10-20 18:23 ` [patch 2.6.9 7/11] 8139too: " John W. Linville
2004-10-20 18:27 ` [patch 2.6.9 8/11] ns83820: " John W. Linville
2004-10-20 18:28 ` [patch 2.6.9 9/11] r8169: " John W. Linville
2004-10-20 20:34 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-20 19:59 ` John W. Linville
2004-10-21 12:33 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-10-20 18:29 ` [patch 2.6.9 10/11] bonding: " John W. Linville
2004-10-20 18:32 ` [patch 2.6.9 11/11] vlan: " John W. Linville
2004-10-21 9:17 ` [patch 2.6.9 0/11] Add MODULE_VERSION to several network drivers Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-21 12:22 ` John W. Linville
2004-10-21 13:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-21 12:55 ` John W. Linville
2004-10-21 14:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-21 13:33 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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