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Date:   Sat, 4 Aug 2018 18:16:00 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@....com>, wim@...ux-watchdog.org
Cc:     linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] watchdog: hpwdt: Update version number.

On 08/02/2018 02:15 PM, Jerry Hoemann wrote:
> Bump version number to reflect recent bug fixes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@....com>

As usual, my recommendation is to drop version numbers. The version number is
reflected by the Linux kernel version and SHA. Yet, I understand that people
feel quite strong about having version numbers in drivers, so,

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>

Just don't expect anyone outside hpe to keep it up to date.

Guenter

> ---
>   drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
> index f098371..27091f3 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
> @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
>   #include <linux/watchdog.h>
>   #include <asm/nmi.h>
>   
> -#define HPWDT_VERSION			"2.0.0"
> +#define HPWDT_VERSION			"2.0.1"
>   #define SECS_TO_TICKS(secs)		((secs) * 1000 / 128)
>   #define TICKS_TO_SECS(ticks)		((ticks) * 128 / 1000)
>   #define HPWDT_MAX_TIMER			TICKS_TO_SECS(65535)
>