On Monday, April 29th, 2024 at 18:43, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever > updated. The information is misleading at best. > > As described in Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst: > > The driver date, formatted as YYYYMMDD, is meant to identify the date > of the latest modification to the driver. However, as most drivers > fail to update it, its value is mostly useless. The DRM core prints it > to the kernel log at initialization time and passes it to userspace > through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl. > > Stop printing the driver date at init, and start returning the empty > string "" as driver date through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl. Sounds good to me. Acked-by: Simon Ser <contact@xxxxxxxxxxx> BTW, I wonder if the driver version number (major/minor/patch) is useful? Do drivers update it?
