| Date | Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:10:40 +0100 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 07/76] NIU: Bump driver version and release date. |
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On 21/03/2008, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> wrote: > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > --------------------- > I don't see how this one fits this criteria from Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt :
... - It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a problem..." type thing). ...
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.
> From: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > > Upstream commit: a442585952f137bd4cdb1f2f3166e4157d383b82 > > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> > > --- > drivers/net/niu.c | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > --- a/drivers/net/niu.c > +++ b/drivers/net/niu.c > @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ > > #define DRV_MODULE_NAME "niu" > #define PFX DRV_MODULE_NAME ": " > -#define DRV_MODULE_VERSION "0.6" > -#define DRV_MODULE_RELDATE "January 5, 2008" > +#define DRV_MODULE_VERSION "0.7" > +#define DRV_MODULE_RELDATE "February 18, 2008" > > static char version[] __devinitdata = > DRV_MODULE_NAME ".c:v" DRV_MODULE_VERSION " (" DRV_MODULE_RELDATE ")\n"; >
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