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Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:40:20 +0100
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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To: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
CC: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
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       Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ide: use MODULE_VERSION()
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Jon Masters wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 22:46 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
>> $ modinfo dell_rbu | grep version
>> version:        3.2
>> srcversion:     1D4815D7D6FBEE6612F3C18
> 
> Right. And I was referring to the is above (I forgot it's a CRC32 and
> not a SHA1). But my point is why not codify some "policy" here with
> respect to module versioning, rather than have the latter exist to
> workaround the case that module versions aren't bumped manually.

How about this version scheme:
driver version == Linux kernel version
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