Re: [PATCH v3 5/9] VMware balloon: Show capabilities of balloon and resulting capabilities in the debug-fs node.

2015-08-05 Thread John Savanyo
On 8/5/15, 1:50 PM, "gre...@linuxfoundation.org" wrote: >You have to always diff the code anyway, you can't trust that number, >see my other email as to why. > >greg k-h I agree that we need to look at the source code to 100% understand that status of a driver. However, if VMware has a

Re: [PATCH v3 5/9] VMware balloon: Show capabilities of balloon and resulting capabilities in the debug-fs node.

2015-08-05 Thread John Savanyo
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,

Re: [PATCH v3 5/9] VMware balloon: Show capabilities of balloon and resulting capabilities in the debug-fs node.

2015-08-05 Thread John Savanyo
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,

Re: [PATCH v3 5/9] VMware balloon: Show capabilities of balloon and resulting capabilities in the debug-fs node.

2015-08-05 Thread John Savanyo
On 8/5/15, 1:50 PM, gre...@linuxfoundation.org gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: You have to always diff the code anyway, you can't trust that number, see my other email as to why. greg k-h I agree that we need to look at the source code to 100% understand that status of a driver. However, if