linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Show version information for built-in modules in sysfs

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Message-ID: <20101215221454.GB6560@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com>
Date:	Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:14:54 -0800
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...are.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Show version information for built-in modules in sysfs

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 02:06:03PM -0800, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...are.com> wrote:
> > Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions
> > shown in /sys/module/<module_name>/version, but this information might
> 
> Can you create just /sys/module/x?
> Module version info is quite useless by itself.

It is as useful as in the case where driver is built as a module. I am
just trying to unify the behavior a bit.

Code-wise it is almost as cheap to add /sys/module/x/version as adding
just the directory.

Thanks,

Dmitry
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