netdev - RE: [PATCH 2.6.24 1/1]S2io: Support for add/delete/store/restore ethernet addresses

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Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:08:33 -0500
From:	"Ramkrishna Vepa" <Ramkrishna.Vepa@...erion.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	"Sreenivasa Honnur" <Sreenivasa.Honnur@...erion.com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"support" <support@...erion.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2.6.24 1/1]S2io: Support for add/delete/store/restore ethernet addresses

Got it. Thanks,

Ram
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:56 PM
> To: Ramkrishna Vepa
> Cc: Sreenivasa Honnur; netdev@...r.kernel.org; jeff@...zik.org;
support
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24 1/1]S2io: Support for
add/delete/store/restore
> ethernet addresses
> 
> From: "Ramkrishna Vepa" <Ramkrishna.Vepa@...erion.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:57:23 -0500
> 
> > [Ram] The version numbers are different for the 2 patches. Was the
MSI-X
> > leak bug fix applied prior to resubmission (we had swapped the
version
> > numbers on the patches for resubmission).
> >
> > [PATCH 2.6.24 1/1]S2io: Fixed memory leak by freeing MSI-X local
entry
> > memories when vector allocation fails
> > +#define DRV_VERSION "2.0.26.6"
> >
> > [PATCH 2.6.24 1/1]S2io: Support for add/delete/store/restore
ethernet
> > addresses
> > +#define DRV_VERSION "2.0.26.7"
> 
> I applied only the leak fix to the stable branch, and only
> the ethernet address support patch to the 2.6.25 development
> tree.
> 
> The bug fix will show up later when the 2.6.25 development
> tree gets rebased to upstream (which will have the leak
> fix by then).
> 
> This is how I do things, and that's why changing the DRV_VERSION
> to 2.0.26.7 made no sense.
> 
> Therefore it makes the most sense to bump driver version numbers
> only when things are entirely self contained.
> 

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