netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: aquantia: replace internal driver version code with uts

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Message-ID: <20190622150514.GB8497@lunn.ch>
Date:   Sat, 22 Jun 2019 17:05:14 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Igor Russkikh <Igor.Russkikh@...antia.com>,
        jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: aquantia: replace internal driver
 version code with uts

On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 01:45:12PM +0000, Igor Russkikh wrote:
> As it was discussed some time previously, driver is better to
> report kernel version string, as it in a best way identifies
> the codebase.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Russkikh <igor.russkikh@...antia.com>

Nice.

Devlink has just gained something similar to ethtool -i. Maybe we
should get the devlink core to also report the kernel version?

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew