Re: [PATCH V2] Staging: dgnc: replace EXTRA_CFLAGS

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Mar 01 2015 - 14:56:22 EST


On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 07:35:02PM +0100, Matteo Semenzato wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 10:05:06 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > What it is being used for? Can it be removed? Is it just there for
> > informational purposes or does the code actually do something based on
> > the value?
>
> The value is used to create a file called version in the driver's sysfs
> directory, the file is read-only.

That's useless, it is a built-time thing, just remove the sysfs file as
well.

thanks,

greg k-h
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