From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/21] NTB: Update Version
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:26:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130121182604.GE5499@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130121175740.GF22208@jonmason-lab>
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:57:41AM -0700, Jon Mason wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 03:47:14PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 02:02:29AM -0700, Jon Mason wrote:
> > > Update NTB version to 0.25
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/ntb/ntb_hw.c | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/ntb/ntb_hw.c b/drivers/ntb/ntb_hw.c
> > > index b792ccd..df86882 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/ntb/ntb_hw.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/ntb/ntb_hw.c
> > > @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
> > > #include "ntb_regs.h"
> > >
> > > #define NTB_NAME "Intel(R) PCI-E Non-Transparent Bridge Driver"
> > > -#define NTB_VER "0.24"
> > > +#define NTB_VER "0.25"
> >
> > I'm not objecting to this, but in the end, does it really matter? Why
> > not just stick with whatever kernel version you are using? Keeping this
> > up to date is going to be hard over the long haul, right?
>
> Currently, it is a convenient way to verify the people testing the
> code are running the latest version, since they are usually running
> their tests on a stable kernel. As the code becomes more stable, I
> can see this becoming unnecessary and I will remove it then.
Ok, that sounds good, thanks.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-21 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-19 9:02 [PATCH 0/21] NTB and ntb_netdev patches Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 01/21] NTB: correct missing readq/writeq errors Jon Mason
2013-01-20 23:40 ` Greg KH
2013-01-21 17:38 ` Jon Mason
2013-01-21 18:23 ` Greg KH
2013-01-21 20:34 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-01-21 20:47 ` Greg KH
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 02/21] NTB: Handle ntb client device probes without present hardware Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 03/21] NTB: correct memory barrier Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 04/21] NTB: separate transmit and receive windows Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 05/21] NTB: No sleeping in interrupt context Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 06/21] NTB: use simple_open for debugfs Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 07/21] NTB: zero PCI driver data Jon Mason
2013-01-20 23:41 ` Greg KH
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 08/21] NTB: declare unused variables Jon Mason
2013-01-20 23:42 ` Greg KH
2013-01-21 17:50 ` Jon Mason
2013-01-21 18:25 ` Greg KH
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 09/21] NTB: namespacecheck cleanups Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 10/21] NTB: whitespace cleanups Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 11/21] NTB: correct stack usage warning in debugfs_read Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 12/21] NTB: Remove reads across NTB Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 13/21] NTB: Out of free receive entries issue Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 14/21] NTB: Fix Sparse Warnings Jon Mason
2013-01-20 23:45 ` Greg KH
2013-01-21 21:13 ` Jon Mason
2013-01-21 21:37 ` Greg KH
2013-01-21 22:28 ` Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 15/21] NTB: Update Version Jon Mason
2013-01-20 23:47 ` Greg KH
2013-01-21 17:57 ` Jon Mason
2013-01-21 18:26 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 16/21] ntb_netdev: remove init/exit from probe/remove Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 17/21] ntb_netdev: correct skb leak Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 18/21] ntb_netdev: remove tx timeout Jon Mason
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 19/21] ntb_netdev: declare unused variables and fix missing initializer Jon Mason
2013-01-20 23:47 ` Greg KH
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 20/21] ntb_netdev: improve logging Jon Mason
2013-01-19 18:51 ` Joe Perches
2013-01-19 9:02 ` [PATCH 21/21] ntb_netdev: Update Version Jon Mason
2013-01-20 23:48 ` [PATCH 0/21] NTB and ntb_netdev patches Greg KH
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