Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:08:53 -0700 | | From | Chris Wright <> | | Subject | Re: [patch 07/76] NIU: Bump driver version and release date. |
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* Greg KH (gregkh@suse.de) wrote: > 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.
I completely agree. The -stable rules are guidelines, primarily to help us say no. When it's submitted by a maintainer as something that helps them support their code (esp a no risk change like version bump to keep things in line), there's little reason to reject. Consider the version bump part of the bug fixes.
thanks, -chris
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