Re: Earthmate LT-20 USB GPS Functionality Broken By 2.6.19 'cypress_m8' Patch
Greg KH <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:53:24PM -0400, Marr wrote: > Also, it's not a huge issue, but when rather large changes go into a kernel > module, shouldn't the module version be incremented? The 'cypress_m8' module > stayed at "v1.09" throughout these substantial (IMHO) changes. No, version numbers of modules don't really mean much, what matters more is the version of the kernel that it was released in, as you have pointed out. But, there are some drivers where the developers do carefully increment the version number, however, those are quite few. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel