netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 08/11] s390/qeth: don't report hard-coded driver version

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Message-ID: <20200318130720.GW3351@unreal>
Date:   Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:07:20 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
To:     Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 08/11] s390/qeth: don't report hard-coded driver
 version

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 01:54:52PM +0100, Julian Wiedmann wrote:
> Versions are meaningless for an in-kernel driver.
> Instead use the UTS_RELEASE that is set by ethtool_get_drvinfo().
>
> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@...ux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/s390/net/qeth_ethtool.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>

Thanks a lot for the patch,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>