On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:01:05AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > If you read Linus's comments on version. > Driver version is meaningless and there is a desire to rip it out of all > drivers. The reason is that drivers must always behave the same, i.e you > can't use version to change API/ABI behavior.
Indeed this causes more harm than good. We had support calls regarding the mlx4 driver because of not incremented MODLE_VERSION()s. If we follow your and Linus' path we shouldn't just get rid of the KERNEL_VERSION() usage in media and replace it with a new version, but kill all the versioning stuff out of media (and others) except for maybe the HW version. > Any upstream driver should never use KERNEL_VERSION(). Exactly my reasoning. -- Johannes Thumshirn Storage jthumsh...@suse.de +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850
