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

[David Miller]

From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:35:40 -0700

>  > 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.

That was an oversight and not intentional, thanks for
for catching that.
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