Re: [PATCH 4/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethtool -i version number info.

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:11:17PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:

This patch adds version information as reported by 
ethtool -i to the Spidernet driver.

Why does a driver that's in the mainline kernel need to have a version
number besides the kernel version?

I can understand it for drivers like e1000 that Intel maintain outside
of the kernel as well. But spidernet is a fully mainline maintained
driver, right?


-Olof