Christoph Hellwig wrote: >On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:01:01AM -0600, James Ketrenos wrote: > > >>>git-foo is a pretty stupid version number, please kill the git- prefix. >>> >>> >>Perhaps for you... >> >>For us this prefix has been very useful in isolating problems reported >>by users. >> >>The 'git' prefix means "this was based on the out-of-tree version foo" >>which can then be quickly followed up with more directed questions to >>the user. >> >> > >then name it -lk<N> as pretty much every other driver. > While there is a standard of using a postfix vs. a prefix, there does not appear to be any standard convention for what to actually put into that postfix.
I agree with switching to using a version string postfix to be in better alignment with other drivers. >and git as pre or postfix makes very little sense. > > To you it may make little sense. To us it does indicate the root ancestry of the version reported by users when they provide the output of "modinfo ipw2100 | grep ^version:". We could use any arbitrary string; git, foo, oot, X, q... the label 'git' holds meaning for us. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
