Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945950AbWBCUuQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 15:50:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945951AbWBCUuQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 15:50:16 -0500 Received: from pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net ([81.228.11.159]:5252 "EHLO pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945950AbWBCUuP (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 15:50:15 -0500 To: Ismail Donmez Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] pktcdvd: Remove version string References: <200602032229.28499.ismail@uludag.org.tr> From: Peter Osterlund Date: 03 Feb 2006 21:49:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200602032229.28499.ismail@uludag.org.tr> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 938 Lines: 20 Ismail Donmez writes: > Cuma 3 Şubat 2006 22:18 tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: > > The version information is not useful for a driver that is maintained > > in Linus' kernel tree. > > > > Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund ... > Hmm this is useful to do dmesg|grep pktcdvd though when you compile it in the > kernel. So I would like to keep it in. Why is it useful? The actual version number can't be that useful since it hasn't been updated since 2004. If you just want to know if the driver is currently in the kernel, you can do: cat /proc/misc | grep pktcdvd -- Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com http://web.telia.com/~u89404340 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/