Re: [PATCH v3 5/9] VMware balloon: Show capabilities of balloon and resulting capabilities in the debug-fs node.

From: Philip Moltmann
Date: Wed Aug 05 2015 - 16:22:43 EST


Hi,

> > MODULE_AUTHOR("VMware, Inc.");
> > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("VMware Memory Control (Balloon) Driver");
> > -MODULE_VERSION("1.3.2.0-k");
> > +MODULE_VERSION("1.3.3.0-k");
>
> This constant change of module version is annoying, is it really even
> needed?
>
> I'll take this, but seriously consider just dropping it entirely as
> it
> doesn't mean anything now that the driver is in the kernel tree.

I think this is meant so that we can track which patches got backported
into RHEL and SLES.

CC-ing John as the policy comes from him.

Philip