Pavan Chandrashekar - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> James C. McPherson wrote:
>
>> Pavan Chandrashekar - Sun Microsystems wrote:
>>
>>> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>>
>>>> "what" is the preferred approach. Looking with strings or for modinfo
>>>> string data is probably not ideal, and won't work for most ON drivers.
>>>>
>> ...
>>
>>> This only provides the version information in the .comment section.
>>>
>> Correct. Which is how we do things from build 97 onwards where there
>> are no version strings due to the gate being managed by Mercurial.
>>
>>
>>> But I think the question is about the driver version information.
>>>
>> It is, and that's what "what" provides.
>>
>
> Yep. Missed Mercurial. I was referring only to the ident strings that we
> have used so far. I stand corrected.
>
The .comment strings have been valid since long before Mercurial. They
haven't been the %I% versions, but they have had build numbers (or patch
numbers, or for unpatched versions, the FCS version) in them.
-- Garrett
> Pavan
>
>
>>> I don't know of any command which gives the version information straight
>>> away, but i cooked up a script which gives you what you want with some
>>> muck which you might need to sift. Here is what I wrote along with the
>>> results it gave on some of the ON drivers:
>>>
>>> # cat /tmp/test
>>> strings -N .data -N .rodata -N .rodata1 /kernel/drv/$1 | grep
>>> "[0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*"
>>> #
>>> # chmod +x /tmp/test
>>> # /tmp/test e1000g
>>> Driver Ver. 5.2.9
>>> Intel PRO/1000 Ethernet 5.2.9
>>> # /tmp/test bge
>>> Broadcom Gb Ethernet v0.62
>>> # /tmp/test sd
>>> SCSI Disk Driver 1.581
>>> *SUN1.0G*
>>> # /tmp/test cmdk
>>> Common Direct Access Disk 1.80
>>>
>> We have "what" and that's what we use. End of story.
>>
>> On a Solaris 10 system with patches installed, you'll see
>> output such as this
>>
>>
>> $ /usr/ccs/bin/what /kernel/drv/sparcv9/mpt
>> /kernel/drv/sparcv9/mpt:
>> SunOS 5.10 Generic 137137-08 Aug 2008
>>
>>
>> Tells you all that you need to know.
>>
>> James C. McPherson
>> --
>> Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
>> Sun Microsystems
>> http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
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