Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755401Ab0LOWO5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:14:57 -0500 Received: from smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com ([65.115.85.73]:12048 "EHLO smtp-outbound-2.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751819Ab0LOWOz (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:14:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:14:54 -0800 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: LKML , Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH] Show version information for built-in modules in sysfs Message-ID: <20101215221454.GB6560@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> References: <20101215220019.GA6560@dtor-ws.eng.vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 847 Lines: 22 On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 02:06:03PM -0800, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions > > shown in /sys/module//version, but this information might > > Can you create just /sys/module/x? > Module version info is quite useless by itself. It is as useful as in the case where driver is built as a module. I am just trying to unify the behavior a bit. Code-wise it is almost as cheap to add /sys/module/x/version as adding just the directory. Thanks, Dmitry -- 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/