Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:14:01 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [patch 07/76] NIU: Bump driver version and release date. | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:10:40 +0100
> As I see it, this patch is quite trivial and does not fix any "real problem". > How come this is suitable for -stable? > > I have no objections to the patch "as such", I just don't think it > makes sense for -stable.
It makes a difference for driver maintainers when users report bugs and we ask them for the version printed by the driver so that we know which fixes have been applied.
You know, if people are going to be jerky about this, I'll just include the version bump in the actual bug fixes which I sometimes do anyways.
Thanks for bringing this up, it's a useful use of everyone's time :-/
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