Re: [PATCH 4.19 065/422] ice: Fix and update driver version string

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Nov 20 2019 - 16:59:09 EST


On Tue 2019-11-19 06:14:22, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit 9ea47d81a7f17c6b77211ab75fbca2127719ad39 ]
>
> Remove the "ice" prefix for the driver version string and bump version
> to 0.7.1-k.

This sounds like a bad idea. 0.7.1 in mainline contains patches that
were not backported to stable, so marking this as 0.7.1 version is
wrong.

Best regards,
Pavel

> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
>
> #include "ice.h"
>
> -#define DRV_VERSION "ice-0.7.0-k"
> +#define DRV_VERSION "0.7.1-k"
> #define DRV_SUMMARY "Intel(R) Ethernet Connection E800 Series Linux Driver"
> const char ice_drv_ver[] = DRV_VERSION;
> static const char ice_driver_string[] = DRV_SUMMARY;
> --
> 2.20.1
>
>

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