From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Chris Leech" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] [I/OAT] Push pending transactions to hardware more frequently Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:11:47 -0700 Message-ID: <41b516cb0608180811m13a3d0bs90d1b9869ebaed59@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060816005337.8634.70033.stgit@gitlost.site> <20060818071157.GA7516@ucw.cz> Reply-To: chris.leech@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.236]:19798 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030422AbWHRPLs (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:11:48 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s14so705553wxc for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:11:47 -0700 (PDT) To: "Pavel Machek" In-Reply-To: <20060818071157.GA7516@ucw.cz> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 8/18/06, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Huh, two version bumps for... ONE ONE-LINER :-). > > Could we get rid of embedded version? It helps no one. Version numbers for drivers that can be built as modules are very helpful for anyone wanting to upgrade a driver on top of a distribution supported kernel. If you always just use the latest kernel source, you're right it doesn't help you. But that's not everyone. This one skips two versions because I'm trying to sync up a 1.8 version tested internally with the 1.7+ upstream changes that's in the kernel now. I'll accept that the official policy is to not version modules when MODULE_VERSION is removed :-) - Chris