Hi Olof,
Olof Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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