Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. > > The driver date initialization in drivers and the struct drm_driver date > member can be removed in follow-up. > > Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- I never understood the value of it and so this patch makes sense to me. Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Best regards, Javier Martinez Canillas Core Platforms Red Hat
