From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753129AbbHEUuf (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2015 16:50:35 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:38128 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752744AbbHEUue (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2015 16:50:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 13:50:34 -0700 From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" To: John Savanyo Cc: "dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com" , Philip Moltmann , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "pv-drivers@vmware.com" , Xavier Deguillard , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/9] VMware balloon: Show capabilities of balloon and resulting capabilities in the debug-fs node. Message-ID: <20150805205034.GA26448@kroah.com> References: <20150612161513.GA23859@dtor-pixel> <1434134610-2831-6-git-send-email-moltmann@vmware.com> <20150805201459.GA16009@kroah.com> <1438806166.31263.203.camel@vmware.com> <20150805203322.GA39610@dtor-ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23+102 (2ca89bed6448) (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 08:42:25PM +0000, John Savanyo wrote: > I agree that version number tracking is not perfect. But it is valuable > for us to use as a rough indication that we have attempted to back port > some appropriate subset of patches from mainline to a sustaining distro > release without having to diff the code. You have to always diff the code anyway, you can't trust that number, see my other email as to why. greg k-h