Re: [stable] [patch 24/46] r6040: bump release number to 0.19

Willy Tarreau
2009-01-23T07:56:56Z

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:04:03PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:31:22AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > > 2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> > >
> >
> > It's simple enough, sure, but it doesn't really conform to the guidelines
> > set out for -stable patches in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt :
> >
> > ...
> > - It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a
> > problem..." type thing).
> > ...
> > - It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes,
> > whitespace cleanups, etc).
> > ...
> >
> > I'm trying to come up with some real problem this fixes and a reason why
> > we want it in -stable, but I cannot...
>
> You missed the patches leading up to this one that updated the driver to
> this version number, without changing the number. This patch is then
> valid.

I too find it important for bug reports that version numbers reflect the
driver status as close as possible.

Willy