From: "Bshara, Saeed" <sae...@amazon.com> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:59:34 +0000
> sorry for the late response. I agree that with stable versions the > driver version is not good indication for which exact code is > running. however, we have many users that port the latest ena > driver as-is from kernel sources into their older kernels, mainly to > pull new ENA features (e.g. low latency queues). for those cases, > the driver version helps us to identify the driver's code, so in > practice this just works fine. I will try one more time. If I push fix X for the ENA driver to -stable and that bumps the version number, all of the features associated with that version number are not present in the -stable backport. It does NOT work.
