David Miller wrote: 

quoted

Andrew Morton wrote:
I'd suggest that the version number just be removed.  It becomes

meaningless (and often misleading) once a driver is in the mainline 
kernel.  People will >update the driver without changing the version 
number.  Code external to the driver but which affects it can change.

I totally disagree.  I find it very useful when I get a debugging dump

from the user and they have no idea where their kernel came from nor can
figure 

out how to determine the kernel version.

Sure it might sometimes not get updated for trivial patches that bypass

the maintainer, but the maintainer is always going to bump it after
non-trivial 

changes.

Exactly. And I am also suggesting that the driver version is not
standard among different vendors. So, why not get them generated in an
automatic build process.
Something like "kernel-version.driver-version". I am just imagining
here. The details can be worked out.

-Shyam