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Message-ID: <BANLkTinZoax2fcSxvyQgfsT-bmsF+BofyQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:22:50 -0400
From:	Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@...nellabs.com>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Andy Walls <awalls@...metrocast.net>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, trivial@...nel.org,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sage Weil <sage@...dream.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Don't use linux/version.h anymore to indicate a per-driver
 version - Was: Re: [PATCH 03/37] Remove unneeded version.h includes from include/

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Stefan Richter
<stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Easier:
>  "I run Ubuntu 10.4".
>  "I run kernel 2.6.32."
> One of these is usually already included in the first post or IRC message
> from the user.
>
> Separate driver versions are only needed on platforms where drivers are
> not distributed by the operating system distributor, or driver source code
> is not released within kernel source code.

Unfortunately, this doesn't work as all too often the user has "Ubuntu
10.1 but I installed the latest media_build tree a few months ago".
Hence they are not necessarily on a particular binary release from a
distro but rather have a mix of a distro's binary release and a
v4l-dvb tree compiled from source.

Devin

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Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs
http://www.kernellabs.com
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