[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "USB: serial: ftdi_sio: Annotate the current Xsens PID assignments" has been added to staging queue

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 08:02:19AM -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 07:38 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 06:36:54AM -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 15:12 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 03:07:54PM -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > > > > This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> > > > > 
> > > > >     USB: serial: ftdi_sio: Annotate the current Xsens PID assignments
> > > > > 
> > > > > to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
> > > > > which can be found at:
> > > > 
> > > > I thought you said you were going to "name" your kernel something else
> > > > not as confusing as ".y.z" would be?
> > > > 
> > > > thanks,
> > > > 
> > > > greg k-h
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Specifically, I said that we would consider it:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:14:18PM -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > > > We'll consider that idea for future extended stable versions maintained
> > > > by our team.
> > > 
> > > ... and we are still considering it.
> > 
> > Ok, what does that exactly mean?
> 
> It means that we will weigh the costs and benefits of doing so,
> including:
>  - how much confusion we think our current naming convention actually
> might causes, or doesn't.
>  - how much confusion changing it would cause for consumers of the
> kernels we maintain.

Any idea how you will be doing this?

>  - the amount of tooling changes it would take to implement such a
> change.
>  - whether or not we think its a good idea at all.

Lovely squishy things :)

> >   How long are you going to be "considering it"?
> 
> Until we reach a conclusion.

Any specific timeframe?

> >   Who is doing the "considering"?
> 
> The Canonical Kernel team.  I.e. the people and organization who
> maintains the kernels you're complaining about.

I'm only "complaining" about the version number, not the work happening.

> > And why did you strip off the public mailing lists to your response?
> 
> I did NOT do so, Greg.  I stripped off these individuals from the Cc:
> line, who were present because they were included in the USB patch to
> which you replied (note the subject line of this thread).  These
> individuals are not likely interested in your version naming issue:
> 
>         Cc:	Patrick Riphagen <patrick.riphagen at xsens.com>,
>          Frans Klaver <frans.klaver at xsens.com>,
>          Johan Hovold <johan at kernel.org>
> 
> The patch message to which you replied was sent to only one list, which
> I left Cc:'d ( kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com ).

My fault, you set the reply-to on the original patch to go to this list,
which my email client rightfully chose.  Sorry for the statement, I was
wrong.

thanks,

greg k-h