[firefly] [PATCH] staging: usbip: userspace: increase version to 2.0

[Andrew Grover]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Valentina Manea <
valentina.manea.m at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 09:16:39PM +0200, Valentina Manea wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: Valentina Manea <valentina.manea.m at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/staging/usbip/userspace/configure.ac | 2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/usbip/userspace/configure.acb/drivers/staging/usbip/userspace/
> configure.ac
> >> index 25bf160..607d05c 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/staging/usbip/userspace/configure.ac
> >> +++ b/drivers/staging/usbip/userspace/configure.ac
> >> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> >>  dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
> >>
> >>  AC_PREREQ(2.59)
> >> -AC_INIT([usbip-utils], [1.1.1], [linux-usb at vger.kernel.org])
> >> +AC_INIT([usbip-utils], [2.0], [linux-usb at vger.kernel.org])
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > What does this mean?  What warrents the version change?  Why have a
> > version at all?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> This was part of an effort to "refresh" USB/IP by moving userspace out
> of kernel.git.
> Since some major changes have been made (libudev migration), Andy (cc'ed)
> and me
> thought it was worth to be promoted to version 2.0


Valentina did considerable work in moving usbip-utils from using the
defunct libsysfs to libudev (well, part of systemd now it seems.) so some
version bump seems appropriate, why not to 2.0? esp. as a heads-up to pkg
maintainers - btw usbip-utils is already packaged for Debian, and I could
probably see it in Fedora too, why not.

As to why have a version at all, this is of course tied to whether
usbip-utils will ever emerge from the belly of the whale and return to its
own home. I think it should someday, if the concerns about long-term
maintenance and interface stability can be addressed to your satisfaction.
It would be considerable work to integrate it into the kernel build, and
would need to be undone if it ever left kernel.git.

Regards -- Andy
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