Re: [PATCH 1/3] ide: use MODULE_VERSION()

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Wed Jan 02 2008 - 09:41:22 EST


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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