On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 15:13:31 -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote: > >> +#define DRV_VERSION "0.11.0-k" > > DRV_VERSION is pretty useless. What you really want to know is the > > kernel git tree and commit. The big distributions might backport this > > version of the driver back to the old kernel with a million > > patches. At which point 0.11.0-k tells you nothing much. > Yes, any version numbering thing from the big distros is put into > question, but I find this number useful to me for tracking what has been > put into the upstream kernel. This plus the full kernel version gives > me a pretty good idea of what I'm looking at.
Still, we strongly encourage ditching the driver version. It encourages upstream first development model among other benefits.
