On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:50:19PM -0500, James K Lewis wrote: > Hi Olof, > > There are several reasons why an Ethernet driver should have an up to > date version number: > > 1. Customers like to see they are really getting a new version. > > 2. It makes it easier for support personnel (me in this case) to see which > driver they have. Sure, sometimes I can talk them thru doing a "sum" on > the .ko and all that, but why not just use the version number? That's what > it is for. And no, you can't just assume they have the version that came > with the kernel they are running. It doesn't work that way. > > 3. It makes bug reporting easier. > > 4. I have already run into too many problems and wasted too much time > working with drivers when the number was NOT getting updated.
Thanks for the info, Jim. Sounds like it's most useful if a customer (or distro) takes the driver out of the tree and run it with a different kernel, i.e. when kernel and driver versions no longer go together. Makes sense. -Olof - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
