Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] net-next:asix: v2 update VERSION only | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:18:57 -0500 |
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On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:37:47 PST, Grant Grundler said:
> Upstream drivers are routinely back ported to distro releases. Version > is the primary means for a vendor (like ASIX) to determine what was > back ported. Distro maintainers and 1st tier support organizations > also need to track versions and "ethtool -i" is the canonical way to > look this up on a running system.
Oh, OK. I figured the distro would know what they backported based on the kernel version they generated - I forgot that sometimes users will bypass the distro and go to the upstream vendor, and you may not know what their distro had done...
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