netdev - Re: [PATCH] sis900: increment revision number

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Message-ID: <7038d64e-0d3c-6b13-04fd-b614efbf5162@brownhat.org>
Date:   Sun, 23 Jun 2019 11:13:28 +0200
From:   Daniele Venzano <venza@...wnhat.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Sergej Benilov <sergej.benilov@...glemail.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sis900: increment revision number

Hello,

I think it is good to know just by looking at the sources that the 
driver is still kept up-to-date, so I am in favor of this patch.

Daniele

On 23/06/2019 11:10, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2019-06-23 at 09:47 +0200, Sergej Benilov wrote:
>> Increment revision number to 1.08.11 (TX completion fix).
> Better not to bother as the last increment was in 2006.
> The driver version gets the kernel version in any case.
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sis/sis900.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sis/sis900.c
> []
>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>>   /* sis900.c: A SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet driver for Linux.
>>      Copyright 1999 Silicon Integrated System Corporation
>> -   Revision:	1.08.10 Apr. 2 2006
>> +   Revision:	1.08.11 Jun. 23 2019
> etc...
>
>