Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750964AbWHKSEN (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:04:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751213AbWHKSEN (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:04:13 -0400 Received: from lixom.net ([66.141.50.11]:64455 "EHLO mail.lixom.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750910AbWHKSEL (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:04:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:00:13 -0500 To: Linas Vepstas Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Jens Osterkamp , James K Lewis , Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethtool -i version number info. Message-ID: <20060811180013.GB6550@pb15.lixom.net> References: <20060811170337.GH10638@austin.ibm.com> <20060811171117.GL10638@austin.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060811171117.GL10638@austin.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 From: Olof Johansson Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 670 Lines: 19 On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:11:17PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote: > This patch adds version information as reported by > ethtool -i to the Spidernet driver. Why does a driver that's in the mainline kernel need to have a version number besides the kernel version? I can understand it for drivers like e1000 that Intel maintain outside of the kernel as well. But spidernet is a fully mainline maintained driver, right? -Olof - 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/