I agree that version number tracking is not perfect. But it is valuable for us to use as a rough indication that we have attempted to back port some appropriate subset of patches from mainline to a sustaining distro release without having to diff the code.
-John On 8/5/15, 1:33 PM, "dmitry.torok...@gmail.com" <dmitry.torok...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 08:22:35PM +0000, Philip Moltmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> > > MODULE_AUTHOR("VMware, Inc."); >> > > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("VMware Memory Control (Balloon) Driver"); >> > > -MODULE_VERSION("1.3.2.0-k"); >> > > +MODULE_VERSION("1.3.3.0-k"); >> > >> > This constant change of module version is annoying, is it really even >> > needed? >> > >> > I'll take this, but seriously consider just dropping it entirely as >> > it >> > doesn't mean anything now that the driver is in the kernel tree. >> >> I think this is meant so that we can track which patches got backported >> into RHEL and SLES. > >That assumes that RHEL and SLES always take everything that is in >mainline, which I would not count. I.e if you have a security fix and >also change version to 1.3.4.0-k and RedHat picks it up is the driver >that they have really 1.3.4.0-k? If not then what? > >You really need to keep track of the substance of the changes needing to >go into each distribution. > >Thanks. > >-- >Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/