Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:13:11 -0700 | | From | Greg KH <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 07/76] NIU: Bump driver version and release date. |
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:57:29AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Furthermore, I honestly don't see how your patch meets the (rather > strict) requirements of stable series either. So it would be nice if > one of the stable maintainers stepped up to say that these kind of > patches are okay to set a precedent for others as well.
These kind of patches are perfectly fine. We trust the maintainers of drivers and subsystems to tell the -stable maintainers what they want added to the tree, and if that includes a version number update to make their lives easier, who are we to say no to that.
Becides, it's not the first time patches like this have been accepted.
thanks,
greg k-h
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