On Mon, 2023-03-20 at 15:18 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 3/17/23 14:35, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 12:57 AM David E. Box > > <david.e.box@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Add a driver version number to make it easier to track changes in > > > backported kernels. > > > > Sorry, but NAK. As Greg KH said, we do not use this anymore (in Git > > era) — the SHA from the Git _is_ the version of the driver. > > I agree with Andy per driver version numbers are really not useful. > > Generally speaking the version number will get updated say once > per upstream kernel-release in a separate commit, > but there is > no guarantee that commit will get cherry-picked together with > other cherry-picked fixes. Good point. Thanks. David > > So for downstream kernels these version numbers really don't > have any meaning and as such are useless. > > Regards, > > Hans >
