RE: [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net: vmxnet3 fixes [0/5] Spare skb to avoidstarvation

[Shreyas Bhatewara]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 2:41 PM
> To: Shreyas Bhatewara
> Cc: netdev-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; pv-
> drivers@xxxxxxxxxx; Michael Stolarchuk
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net: vmxnet3 fixes [0/5] Spare skb to
> avoid starvation
> 
> 
> A couple problems remaining in this patch set:
> 
> 1) Too many bug fixes for this late in the -rc series of 2.6.35
>    Pick a smaller number of fixes, the most critical ones, perhaps
>    2 or 3, and re-submit those for net-2.6
> 
>    Pick the ones that produce easily triggers crashes or documented
>    regressions present on the official lkml regression list.
> 
>    Send the rest in for net-next-2.6

Could you please apply all the patches in the series to net-next-2.6, the patches will apply cleanly. Or would you rather have them reposted them with proper subject line ?

> 
> 2) Bumping the driver version every patch in a patch series is
> pointless.
>    Do the bump once, at the end of the series.


The version numbers bumps although seemingly pointless (and harmless), make my life easy to track and maintain the bug#-to-fix mapping.


Thanks.
->Shreyas


> 
> Thanks.
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