From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stable list vs versioning
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 22:39:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161007203927.GA24211@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86846714-1e66-ff3f-4a27-ca664fc2bff9@vmware.com>
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 10:35:19AM -0700, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> So my end goal here is to find a way for the vmware paravirtual in-tree
> kernel modules to stop bumping version numbers on each commit / commit
> series and start pushing important bugfixes to stable, while making
> kernel maintainers happy and company people happy. There are no
> out-of-tree modules whatsoever involved in this discussion.
kernel maintainers don't care about version numbers for drivers at all,
just drop them, they cause more problems than they are worth.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-07 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-07 1:54 Stable list vs versioning Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07 3:52 ` Greg KH
2016-10-07 4:19 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07 4:22 ` Greg KH
2016-10-07 4:51 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07 12:48 ` Greg KH
2016-10-07 13:47 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07 14:18 ` Greg KH
2016-10-07 15:05 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07 15:26 ` Greg KH
2016-10-07 15:33 ` Josh Boyer
2016-10-07 15:45 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07 17:13 ` Greg KH
2016-10-07 17:35 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07 20:39 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-10-08 5:57 ` Willy Tarreau
2016-10-10 9:30 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07 15:13 ` Willy Tarreau
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