Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:46:47 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethtool -i version number info. | From | (Linas Vepstas) |
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Hi Olof,
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> writes: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:11:17PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > > This patch adds version information as reported by > > ethtool -i to the Spidernet driver. > > Why does a driver that's in the mainline kernel need to have a version > number besides the kernel version?
I'll let Jim be the primary defender. From what I can tell, "that's the way its done". For example:
linux-2.6.18-rc3-mm2 $ grep MODULE_VERSION */*/*.c |wc 164 245 9081
> I can understand it for drivers like e1000 that Intel maintain outside > of the kernel as well. But spidernet is a fully mainline maintained > driver, right?
Yes, the spidernet is a Linux-kernel only driver.
--linas
p.s. very strange, but I did not see your original email; only saw Jim's reply.
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