netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/core: Replace driver version to be kernel version

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Date:   Thu, 23 Jan 2020 06:40:06 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>,
        Michal Kalderon <michal.kalderon@...vell.com>,
        linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/core: Replace driver version to be kernel
 version

On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:05:41 +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
> 
> In order to stop useless driver version bumps and unify output
> presented by ethtool -i, let's overwrite the version string.
> 
> Before this change:
> [leonro@...er ~]$ ethtool -i eth0
> driver: virtio_net
> version: 1.0.0
> After this change:
> [leonro@...ver ~]$ ethtool -i eth0
> driver: virtio_net
> version: 5.5.0-rc6+
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>

I wonder how hard it would be to tell Coccinelle to remove all prints
in the drivers.  Removing related defines would probably be a little
painful/manual. Hm..

Anyway, you gotta rebase on net-next, the ethtool code got moved around
:)