On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 04:39:26PM +0000, Michal Kalderon wrote:

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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 6:14 PM

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On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 05:26:27PM +0200, Michal Kalderon wrote:

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The FW brings along a large set of fixes and features which will be
added at a later phase. This is an adaquete point to bump the driver

version.

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Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Michal Kalderon <redacted>
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 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

We discussed this a lot, those driver version bumps are stupid and have
nothing close to the reality. Distro kernels are based on some kernel version
with extra patches on top, in RedHat world this "extra"
is a lot. For them your driver version say nothing. For users who run vanilla
kernel, those versions are not relevant too, because running such kernels
requires knowledge and understanding.

You definitely should stop this enterprise cargo cult of "releasing software"
by updating versions in non-controlled by you distribution chain.

Thanks

Due to past discussions on this topic, qedr driver version was not added and not bumped.
However, customers are used to seeing a driver version for qed/qede
We only bump major version changes (37 -> 42)  and not the minor versions anymore.
This does give a high-level understanding of the driver supports, helps us and the customers.

It is worth to talk with customers instead of adding useless work for
everyone involved here.

Thanks