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

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Fri Mar 21 2008 - 22:35:52 EST


> It makes a difference for driver maintainers when users
> report bugs and we ask them for the version printed
> by the driver so that we know which fixes have been
> applied.

I'm not sure if this series of patches really accomplishes that...
you're leaving out some patches such as "[NIU]: Fix 1G PHY link state
handling." that are in the real 0.7. So the 2.6.24.stable version 0.7
has a different set of fixes than the 2.6.25 version 0.7.

- R.

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