> David Miller wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > >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. >I totally disagree. I find it very useful when I get a debugging dump from the user and they have no idea where their kernel came from nor can figure >out how to determine the kernel version. >Sure it might sometimes not get updated for trivial patches that bypass the maintainer, but the maintainer is always going to bump it after non-trivial >changes. Exactly. And I am also suggesting that the driver version is not standard among different vendors. So, why not get them generated in an automatic build process. Something like "kernel-version.driver-version". I am just imagining here. The details can be worked out. -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
