On Wed, 2019-11-20 at 22:59 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
On Tue 2019-11-19 06:14:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
From: Anirudh Venkataramanan anirudh.venkataramanan@intel.com
[ Upstream commit 9ea47d81a7f17c6b77211ab75fbca2127719ad39 ]
Remove the "ice" prefix for the driver version string and bump version to 0.7.1-k.
This sounds like a bad idea. 0.7.1 in mainline contains patches that were not backported to stable, so marking this as 0.7.1 version is wrong.
I agree, backporting this change to stable should not happen.
NAK
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ #include "ice.h" -#define DRV_VERSION "ice-0.7.0-k" +#define DRV_VERSION "0.7.1-k" #define DRV_SUMMARY "Intel(R) Ethernet Connection E800 Series Linux Driver" const char ice_drv_ver[] = DRV_VERSION; static const char ice_driver_string[] = DRV_SUMMARY; -- 2.20.1