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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 12:57:16 +0000
From: John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: mcgrof@...nel.org, russ.weight@...ux.dev, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 3/4] net: ethtool: Use uts_release

On 31/01/2024 19:24, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:48:50 +0000 John Garry wrote:
>> Instead of using UTS_RELEASE, use uts_release, which means that we don't
>> need to rebuild the code just for the git head commit changing.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Garry<john.g.garry@...cle.com>
> Yes, please!
> 
> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski<kuba@...nel.org>

Cheers

BTW, I assume that changes like this are also ok:

--------8<---------

    net: team: Don't bother filling in ethtool driver version

    The version is same as the default, as don't bother.

    Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/team/team.c b/drivers/net/team/team.c
index f575f225d417..0a44bbdcfb7b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/team/team.c
+++ b/drivers/net/team/team.c
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
#include <net/genetlink.h>
#include <net/netlink.h>
#include <net/sch_generic.h>
-#include <generated/utsrelease.h>
#include <linux/if_team.h>

#define DRV_NAME "team"
@@ -2074,7 +2073,6 @@ static void team_ethtool_get_drvinfo(struct
net_device *dev,
                                     struct ethtool_drvinfo *drvinfo)
{
        strscpy(drvinfo->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(drvinfo->driver));
-       strscpy(drvinfo->version, UTS_RELEASE, sizeof(drvinfo->version));
}

-------->8---------

right?

John