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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stable list vs versioning
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 06:22:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161007042223.GA32472@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c428f430-1cca-a324-6fd8-a42304b2ed27@vmware.com>

On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 09:19:50PM -0700, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> 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.

But who has the problem here really?  Not the kernel community or
developers, but rather an odd set of unskilled QA people (your word, not
mine.)

Why can't they get more "skill"?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-07  4:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-07  1:54 Stable list vs versioning Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07  3:52 ` Greg KH
2016-10-07  4:19   ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07  4:22     ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-10-07  4:51       ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07 12:48         ` Greg KH
2016-10-07 13:47           ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07 14:18             ` Greg KH
2016-10-07 15:05               ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07 15:26                 ` Greg KH
2016-10-07 15:33                   ` Josh Boyer
2016-10-07 15:45                   ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07 17:13                     ` Greg KH
2016-10-07 17:35                       ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07 20:39                         ` Greg KH
2016-10-08  5:57                         ` Willy Tarreau
2016-10-10  9:30                           ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-10-07 15:13             ` Willy Tarreau

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