On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 10:35:19AM -0700, Thomas Hellstrom wrote: > So my end goal here is to find a way for the vmware paravirtual in-tree > kernel modules to stop bumping version numbers on each commit / commit > series and start pushing important bugfixes to stable, while making > kernel maintainers happy and company people happy. There are no > out-of-tree modules whatsoever involved in this discussion. kernel maintainers don't care about version numbers for drivers at all, just drop them, they cause more problems than they are worth. thanks, greg k-h -- 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