From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:48091 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750696AbcJGEEs (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2016 00:04:48 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 05:52:36 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Thomas Hellstrom Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Stable list vs versioning Message-ID: <20161007035236.GA16832@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 06:54:43PM -0700, Thomas Hellstrom wrote: > Hi, Stable! > > As you might be aware of, some companies that maintain linux kernel > drivers have the habit of assigning each driver change a new version > number. And, as you have found out, that's a horrible thing to do for Linux and doesn't work at all :) Just because it works for other slower-moving operating systems, I wouldn't recommend doing it for Linux. Is there any specific driver out there that we don't have merged into the kernel tree that could be helped from doing this type of thing? thanks, greg k-h