On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:05:41 +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > In order to stop useless driver version bumps and unify output > presented by ethtool -i, let's overwrite the version string. > > Before this change: > [leonro@erver ~]$ ethtool -i eth0 > driver: virtio_net > version: 1.0.0 > After this change: > [leonro@server ~]$ ethtool -i eth0 > driver: virtio_net > version: 5.5.0-rc6+ > > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> I wonder how hard it would be to tell Coccinelle to remove all prints in the drivers. Removing related defines would probably be a little painful/manual. Hm.. Anyway, you gotta rebase on net-next, the ethtool code got moved around :)
