From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.9 0/11] Add MODULE_VERSION to several network drivers Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:33:22 -0400 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20041021093322.E29340@tuxdriver.com> References: <20041020141146.C8775@tuxdriver.com> <1098350269.2810.17.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20041021082205.A29340@tuxdriver.com> <1098366370.2810.31.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <20041021085509.B29340@tuxdriver.com> <1098367875.2810.36.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Return-path: To: Arjan van de Ven Content-Disposition: inline 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 Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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