Hi! On 10/06/2016 08:52 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 06:54:43PM -0700, Thomas Hellstrom wrote: >> Hi, Stable! >> >> As you might be aware of, some companies that maintain linux kernel >> drivers have the habit of assigning each driver change a new version >> number. > And, as you have found out, that's a horrible thing to do for Linux and > doesn't work at all :) > > Just because it works for other slower-moving operating systems, I > wouldn't recommend doing it for Linux. Yes, I'm fully aware of the difficulties, though I was hoping that I, with the help some bright ideas from the list could come up with a clever way to make everybody happy. > > Is there any specific driver out there that we don't have merged into > the kernel tree that could be helped from doing this type of thing? > > thanks, > > greg k-h Nope, no out-of-tree driver that I know of. This is all in the interest of sending crucial bugfixes through the proper channels without making life very hard for Quality Assurance. Thanks, Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html