On 10/08/2016 07:57 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > 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. > Here it's better to simply drop module version at all, because not all > patches will be backported to stable, and the version becomes confusing. > From time to time when we backport fixes to older kernels, we find a > driver fix refusing to apply because it also updates the version to > something much higher than what we have. It shows how inappropriate > these versions are. Enumerating patches between branches is not hard, > is much more accurate than relying on a version which a single patch > could increase while still missing other important patches. > > Willy Thanks for your input Willy. 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