Re: [PATCH net-next 01/18] ionic: Add basic framework for IONIC Network device driver
From: Jakub Kicinski <hidden>
Date: 2019-06-24 20:08:12
From: Jakub Kicinski <hidden>
Date: 2019-06-24 20:08:12
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 15:13:31 -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote:
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+#define DRV_VERSION "0.11.0-k"DRV_VERSION is pretty useless. What you really want to know is the kernel git tree and commit. The big distributions might backport this version of the driver back to the old kernel with a million patches. At which point 0.11.0-k tells you nothing much.Yes, any version numbering thing from the big distros is put into question, but I find this number useful to me for tracking what has been put into the upstream kernel. This plus the full kernel version gives me a pretty good idea of what I'm looking at.
Still, we strongly encourage ditching the driver version. It encourages upstream first development model among other benefits.