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typhoon: Kill references to UTS_RELEASE

Message ID 20110124.151214.28803162.davem@davemloft.net
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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David Miller Jan. 24, 2011, 11:12 p.m. UTC
This makes the driver get rebuilt every single time you
type 'make' which is beyond rediculious.

I hereby declare this driver to have version "1.0"

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This has been driving me nuts for a long time.

 drivers/net/typhoon.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

David Dillow Jan. 25, 2011, 7:39 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 15:12 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> This makes the driver get rebuilt every single time you
> type 'make' which is beyond rediculious.

Indeed, that's stupid.

> I hereby declare this driver to have version "1.0"

Wish you'd gone to 1.6 or 2.0 since the last version before Joe's/my
changes was 1.5.9, but it's pretty irrelevant anyways. Hmm, does
anything complain if we just remove the MODULE_VERSION?


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David Miller Jan. 25, 2011, 8:33 p.m. UTC | #2
From: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:39:25 -0500

> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 15:12 -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> I hereby declare this driver to have version "1.0"
> 
> Wish you'd gone to 1.6 or 2.0 since the last version before Joe's/my
> changes was 1.5.9, but it's pretty irrelevant anyways. Hmm, does
> anything complain if we just remove the MODULE_VERSION?

I don't think anything does, but it's presence helps distribution
vendors so they can add their own sub-version suffix to the driver
version when they make local changes.

And you really do want that when users report problems but are using
vendor kernels, it makes the fact that local changes exist from the
vendor easy to see.
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diff --git a/drivers/net/typhoon.c b/drivers/net/typhoon.c
index a3c46f6..7fa5ec2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/typhoon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/typhoon.c
@@ -123,12 +123,11 @@  static const int multicast_filter_limit = 32;
 #include <linux/in6.h>
 #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
 #include <linux/firmware.h>
-#include <generated/utsrelease.h>
 
 #include "typhoon.h"
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>");
-MODULE_VERSION(UTS_RELEASE);
+MODULE_VERSION("1.0");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_FIRMWARE(FIRMWARE_NAME);
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("3Com Typhoon Family (3C990, 3CR990, and variants)");