From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [ethtool PATCH] ethtool: Add Direct Attach to the available connector ports Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:52:08 -0500 Message-ID: <4B329F18.4070607@garzik.org> References: <20091125101315.24481.11759.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20091129.003601.253425360.davem@davemloft.net> <4B125014.9080507@garzik.org> <1259584513.3709.173.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com, =?UTF-8?B?QW7DrWJhbCBNb25zYWx2ZSBTYWxheg==?= =?UTF-8?B?YXI=?= To: Ben Hutchings Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f182.google.com ([209.85.211.182]:54242 "EHLO mail-yw0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754264AbZLWWwL (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:52:11 -0500 Received: by ywh12 with SMTP id 12so8324304ywh.21 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:52:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1259584513.3709.173.camel@localhost> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/30/2009 07:35 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 05:42 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> The current scheme just increments a release number: 5->6, 6->7, etc. >> But with so few kernel releases (and thus ethtool releases), I was >> leaning towards either yearly release naming ("ethtool-2009"), kernel >> release naming ("ethtool-2.6.33"), or the release scheme proposed for >> glibc: snapshot directly from the git repository. > I think it should be based on kernel versions, so that it's clear > whether a given ethtool version supports the features introduced in a > given kernel version. Sounds like kernel version it is. Will debut ethtool-2.6.33 in a week or so, then. I posted ethtool-2.6.33-pre1 just now (intentionally different from 2.6.33-rc1, to hint that ethtool release candidates need not march in lock step with kernel pre-releases). Let some bug fixes trickle in, and then release ethtool-2.6.33. Jeff