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

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Message-Id: <20200125.101311.1924780619716720495.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 25 Jan 2020 10:13:11 +0100 (CET)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     leon@...nel.org
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, leonro@...lanox.com, michal.kalderon@...vell.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/core: Replace driver version to be kernel
 version

From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:05:41 +0200

> 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>

Please respin on current net-next, thank you :)