netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 01/18] ionic: Add basic framework for IONIC Network device driver

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Date:   Mon, 24 Jun 2019 13:07:59 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 01/18] ionic: Add basic framework for IONIC
 Network device driver

On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 15:13:31 -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote:
> >> +#define DRV_VERSION		"0.11.0-k"  
> > DRV_VERSION is pretty useless. What you really want to know is the
> > kernel git tree and commit. The big distributions might backport this
> > version of the driver back to the old kernel with a million
> > patches. At which point 0.11.0-k tells you nothing much.  
> Yes, any version numbering thing from the big distros is put into 
> question, but I find this number useful to me for tracking what has been 
> put into the upstream kernel.  This plus the full kernel version gives 
> me a pretty good idea of what I'm looking at.

Still, we strongly encourage ditching the driver version.  
It encourages upstream first development model among other benefits.