From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:36431 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754191AbcJGUjU (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2016 16:39:20 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 22:39:27 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Thomas Hellstrom Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Stable list vs versioning Message-ID: <20161007203927.GA24211@kroah.com> References: <20161007042223.GA32472@kroah.com> <3a12b7fc-f013-fe4e-8639-663cca90e015@vmware.com> <20161007124859.GB866@kroah.com> <0119a3a4-5948-bf9a-18a3-4e0b87e6e52b@vmware.com> <20161007141817.GC25284@kroah.com> <20161007152634.GA10323@kroah.com> <5b54ed15-a68b-a08d-a07b-3d28fb2956bc@vmware.com> <20161007171337.GC20665@kroah.com> <86846714-1e66-ff3f-4a27-ca664fc2bff9@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86846714-1e66-ff3f-4a27-ca664fc2bff9@vmware.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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