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Message-ID: <20061217200625.GE10316@stusta.de>
Date:	Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:06:25 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Drebes <webmaster@...grammierforen.de>,
	kernel-janitors@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH] he: tiny space savings

On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 11:02:55PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 07:28:06PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:56:22PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > From: Andi Drebes <webmaster@...grammierforen.de>
> > >    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> > >   20015     480      28   20523    502b drivers/atm/he.o
> > >   19997     480      28   20505    5019 drivers/atm/he.o
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Andi Drebes <webmaster@...grammierforen.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > >  drivers/atm/he.c |    2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > --- a/drivers/atm/he.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/atm/he.c
> > > @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ #endif /* HE_DEBUG */
> > >
> > >  /* version definition */
> > >
> > > -static char *version = "$Id: he.c,v 1.18 2003/05/06 22:57:15 chas Exp $";
> > > +static const char version[] = "$Id: he.c,v 1.18 2003/05/06 22:57:15 chas Exp $";
> > >...
> >
> > Can't we kill this ancient and outdated version string instead?
> 
> "version" is involved in he_proc_read(). I think, no.

You don;t have to omit this line, but printing a more than 3 years old 
CVS tag is silly (I can't believe anyone is parsing the CVS version).

cu
Adrian

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