On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 19:33 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On the second thought: maybe we will be better off with limiting > MODULE_VERSION() to the device drivers and the IDE core module for now, > and just removing all these private version numbers from host drivers > (with one or two exceptions they are not printed or exported currently, > moreover exceptions are the cases like stale version numbers from 199x)? Things like checkpatch could help advise people to bump the version number, but it's a bit iffy. Matt D. actually uses the special source version modinfo for DKMS - which is different - but it makes me wonder whether dynamically generating a version based on source SHA1 wouldn't be a better idea in most cases than an outdated hard-coded one. Comments? Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
