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From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Driver and/or module versions
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 22:41:16 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1707032238300.15036@cbobk.fhfr.pm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170630162155.GB26257@fury>

On Fri, 30 Jun 2017, Darren Hart wrote:

> New features also fall into the independent tracking bucket, although 
> your point about feature masks could reduce that need. Is there a 
> definitive mechanism for the feature mask approach? I see a lot of 
> sysfs_filename:value key:value pairs for this kind of thing.

Adding those sysfs attributes seems like exactly the thing that people 
will keep forgetting to do, as there is no (real) functionality depending 
on them.

I doubt there is any better 'description' of the 'state' of the driver 
than SHA of the topmost commit + the tree it's related to.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-03 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-25  7:24 Leon Romanovsky
2017-06-25 17:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-25 18:19   ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-06-25 18:37     ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-25 19:05       ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-06-25 21:32         ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-06-26  4:51           ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-06-26  6:47             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-06-26  5:00         ` Greg KH
2017-06-26  6:03           ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-06-26 15:21             ` Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
2017-06-26 18:25               ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-06-30 16:21   ` Darren Hart
2017-07-03 20:41     ` Jiri Kosina [this message]
2017-07-03 21:25       ` Darren Hart

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