From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:05:41 +0200 > 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> Please respin on current net-next, thank you :)