linux-kernel - Re: [EDAC ABI v13 04/25] events/hw_event: Create a Hardware Events Report Mecanism (HERM)

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2012 17:12:54 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	Linux Edac Mailing List <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Doug Thompson <norsk5@...oo.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	gregkh <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [EDAC ABI v13 04/25] events/hw_event: Create a Hardware Events
 Report Mecanism (HERM)

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:08:32PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> There's also another technical reason to give an acronym to the EDAC
> version that actually works: changeset numbers are not consistent
> within distributions (or other trees, like -stable - although this 60+
> patch series probably won't fit on -stable merging criteria).
>
> Also, this EDAC changeset 60+ patch series can't be represented by a
> single changeset, and requires userspace changes in order to get a
> proper representation model for memories.
>
> Tagging the EDAC core version with a name helps a lot when dealing
> with all the unsolved bugzillas that will be closed by backporting
> this patch series in order to fix the serious EDAC core bug that
> were providing fake information to the end user for all Intel memory
> controllers manufactured after 2005.

edac_module.c:18:#define EDAC_VERSION "Ver: 2.1.0"

Increment that in the last patch.

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