On 5/11/2017 4:27 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 10:52:31AM +0530, Selvin Xavier wrote:
Thanks Leon and Dennis for your comments.
The main intention of this patch is to easily map the upstream driver
to the level of supported features in the
internal code base. I understand the point you and others are
mentioning while porting to older kernels or during
the bug fixes/feature additions from other contributors. But, can we
consider it as just a number to enable vendors
to track their base branch?
It is up to you, just wanted to warn you that in long run it won't give
you any information. We are in similar situation and decided to change
versions in really rare situations, like addition of new driver. In other
cases, it is useless.
Personally it doesn't bother me one bit. I mean, hey we did it in our
driver. But it was NAKed by the maintainer of the staging tree when our
driver was there, so just wanted to point out that some in the community
are pretty strongly opposed to it.
-Denny
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