>Andrew Morton wrote: > > + * > > + * Written by: Karen Xie (kxie@xxxxxxxxxxx) */ > > + > > +#include "cxgb3i.h" > > + > > +#define DRV_MODULE_NAME "cxgb3i" > > +#define DRV_MODULE_VERSION "1.0.0" >I'd suggest that the version number just be removed. It becomes meaningless (and often misleading) once a driver is in the mainline kernel. People will >update the driver without changing the version number. Code external to the driver but which affects it can change. >The kernel version identifier is really the only way in whcih you and your support people can reproduce a user's code. > > +#define DRV_MODULE_RELDATE "May 1, 2008" >Ditto. It gives us a stick to ask vendors to maintain upstream versions of driver code in the distros. While we are at this. I believe that there is not much of a standard for driver versioning. If we automatically get a driver version from the kernel version then it solves both problems. Thoughts ?? Thanks, Shyam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
