Re: [patch 07/76] NIU: Bump driver version and release date.

[Chris Wright]

* Greg KH (gregkh@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:57:29AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > Furthermore, I honestly don't see how your patch meets the (rather
> > strict) requirements of stable series either. So it would be nice if
> > one of the stable maintainers stepped up to say that these kind of
> > patches are okay to set a precedent for others as well.
> 
> These kind of patches are perfectly fine.  We trust the maintainers of
> drivers and subsystems to tell the -stable maintainers what they want
> added to the tree, and if that includes a version number update to make
> their lives easier, who are we to say no to that.

I completely agree.  The -stable rules are guidelines, primarily to help
us say no.  When it's submitted by a maintainer as something that helps
them support their code (esp a no risk change like version bump to keep
things in line), there's little reason to reject.  Consider the version
bump part of the bug fixes.

thanks,
-chris
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