Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754511Ab1FXVWz (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:22:55 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:39321 "EHLO mail-ew0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753887Ab1FXVWx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:22:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110624232048.66f1f98c@stein> References: <4E04912A.4090305@infradead.org> <201106241554.10751.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> <4E04A122.2080002@infradead.org> <20110624203404.7a3f6f6a@stein> <1308949448.2093.20.camel@morgan.silverblock.net> <20110624232048.66f1f98c@stein> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:22:50 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC] Don't use linux/version.h anymore to indicate a per-driver version - Was: Re: [PATCH 03/37] Remove unneeded version.h includes from include/ From: Devin Heitmueller To: Stefan Richter Cc: Andy Walls , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Hans Verkuil , Jesper Juhl , LKML , trivial@kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, Sage Weil Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1060 Lines: 28 On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Stefan Richter wrote: > Easier: > ?"I run Ubuntu 10.4". > ?"I run kernel 2.6.32." > One of these is usually already included in the first post or IRC message > from the user. > > Separate driver versions are only needed on platforms where drivers are > not distributed by the operating system distributor, or driver source code > is not released within kernel source code. Unfortunately, this doesn't work as all too often the user has "Ubuntu 10.1 but I installed the latest media_build tree a few months ago". Hence they are not necessarily on a particular binary release from a distro but rather have a mix of a distro's binary release and a v4l-dvb tree compiled from source. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- 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/