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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] ide: use MODULE_VERSION()
FromJon Masters <>
DateTue, 01 Jan 2008 21:32:36 -0500
On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 19:33 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> On the second thought: maybe we will be better off with limiting
> MODULE_VERSION() to the device drivers and the IDE core module for now,
> and just removing all these private version numbers from host drivers
> (with one or two exceptions they are not printed or exported currently,
> moreover exceptions are the cases like stale version numbers from 199x)?

Things like checkpatch could help advise people to bump the version
number, but it's a bit iffy. Matt D. actually uses the special source
version modinfo for DKMS - which is different - but it makes me wonder
whether dynamically generating a version based on source SHA1 wouldn't
be a better idea in most cases than an outdated hard-coded one.

Comments?

Jon.




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