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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, nedev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] forcedeth: version bump
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:03:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46560B99.9020406@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <465237F5.2010208@nvidia.com>

Ayaz Abdulla wrote:
> This patch bumps up the version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> --- old/drivers/net/forcedeth.c	2007-05-21 20:09:03.000000000 -0400
> +++ new/drivers/net/forcedeth.c	2007-05-21 20:10:32.000000000 -0400
> @@ -112,6 +112,7 @@
>   *	0.58: 30 Oct 2006: Added support for sideband management unit.
>   *	0.59: 30 Oct 2006: Added support for recoverable error.
>   *	0.60: 20 Jan 2007: Code optimizations for rings, rx & tx data paths, and stats.
> + *	0.61: 21 May 2007: Fix power management code, cpu mask, and added vitesse phy.
>   *
>   * Known bugs:
>   * We suspect that on some hardware no TX done interrupts are generated.

The standard for kernel drivers these days is to rely on the 
permanent-for-eternity kernel changelog stored in git.

So please just remove the entire history from the C source code.  It's 
just patch noise...


> @@ -128,7 +129,7 @@
>  #else
>  #define DRIVERNAPI
>  #endif
> -#define FORCEDETH_VERSION		"0.60"
> +#define FORCEDETH_VERSION		"0.61"
>  #define DRV_NAME			"forcedeth"

obviously the rest of this patch is OK.  But due to earlier patch 
rejections, I will not apply it, and will assume it will reappear when 
you resend other patches.

Finally, I would suggest keeping up with the kernel's "bug fix" 
2.6.X-rcY release candidate cycles.  These changes ARE bug fixes, I 
agree, but they still should not be appearing at the last minute.  That 
gives us little time to ensure the fixes do not cause regressions.

	Jeff



      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-24 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-22  0:23 [PATCH 4/4] forcedeth: version bump Ayaz Abdulla
2007-05-24 22:03 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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