From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wtarreau.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:48282 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932167AbcJHF5M (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Oct 2016 01:57:12 -0400 Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 07:57:03 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Thomas Hellstrom Cc: Greg KH , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Stable list vs versioning Message-ID: <20161008055703.GC11221@1wt.eu> References: <20161007042223.GA32472@kroah.com> <3a12b7fc-f013-fe4e-8639-663cca90e015@vmware.com> <20161007124859.GB866@kroah.com> <0119a3a4-5948-bf9a-18a3-4e0b87e6e52b@vmware.com> <20161007141817.GC25284@kroah.com> <20161007152634.GA10323@kroah.com> <5b54ed15-a68b-a08d-a07b-3d28fb2956bc@vmware.com> <20161007171337.GC20665@kroah.com> <86846714-1e66-ff3f-4a27-ca664fc2bff9@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86846714-1e66-ff3f-4a27-ca664fc2bff9@vmware.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Here it's better to simply drop module version at all, because not all patches will be backported to stable, and the version becomes confusing. >>From time to time when we backport fixes to older kernels, we find a driver fix refusing to apply because it also updates the version to something much higher than what we have. It shows how inappropriate these versions are. Enumerating patches between branches is not hard, is much more accurate than relying on a version which a single patch could increase while still missing other important patches. Willy