On 1/26/20 1:33 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote
The long-standing policy in kernel that we don't really care about
out-of-tree code.
Yeah... we all know it's not that simple :)
The in-tree driver versions are meaningless and cause annoying churn
when people arbitrarily bump them. If we can get people to stop doing
that we'll be happy, that's all there is to it.
Perhaps it would be helpful if this standard was applied to all the
drivers equally? For example, I see that this week's ice driver update
from Intel was accepted with no comment on their driver version bump.
Look, if we want to stamp all in-kernel drivers with the kernel version,
fine. But let's do it in a way that doesn't break the out-of-tree
driver ability to report something else. Can we set up a macro for
in-kernel drivers to use in their get_drvinfo callback and require
drivers to use that macro? Then the out-of-tree drivers are able to
replace that macro with whatever they need. Just don't forcibly bash
the value from higher up in the stack.
sln
