Thread (63 messages) 63 messages, 6 authors, 2019-06-27

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

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.
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