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

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Date:   Sun, 23 Jun 2019 09:26:26 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, venza@...wnhat.org
Cc:     sergej.benilov@...glemail.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sis900: increment revision number

On Sun, 2019-06-23 at 08:37 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Daniele Venzano <venza@...wnhat.org>
> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 11:13:28 +0200
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I absolutely, strongly, disagree.
> 
> These are pointless.

Perhaps (most)? all the .get_drvinfo function calls where the
driver version is returned should use the default release.

This is similar to net/wireless/ethtool.c

Maybe:
---
 net/core/ethtool.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index 4d1011b2e24f..644a2043714c 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
 #include <linux/sched/signal.h>
 #include <linux/net.h>
+#include <linux/utsname.h>
 #include <net/devlink.h>
 #include <net/xdp_sock.h>
 #include <net/flow_offload.h>
@@ -806,6 +807,8 @@ static noinline_for_stack int ethtool_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev,
 		devlink_compat_running_version(dev, info.fw_version,
 					       sizeof(info.fw_version));
 
+	strlcpy(info.version, init_utsname()->release, sizeof(info.version));
+
 	if (copy_to_user(useraddr, &info, sizeof(info)))
 		return -EFAULT;
 	return 0;