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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MODULE_VERSION for scsi drivers
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:31:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040427153145.A17739@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040427131050.GA17777@lists.us.dell.com>; from Matt_Domsch@dell.com on Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:10:50AM -0500

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:10:50AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> Per include/linux/module.h:
>   Using this automatically adds a checksum of the .c files and the
>   local headers to the end.  Use MODULE_VERSION("") if you want just
>   this.  Macro includes room for this.
> 
> So for modules which don't appear to have their own versioning, we use
> the "" mechanism to simply generate the checksum for the file.  This
> still allows tools (ala DKMS eventually) to note if something in the
> module changed even if the version string didn't.

That's totally braindead.  If you want to use a scheme like that talk
rusty into generating this without needing to add anything to the driver.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-27 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-27  4:09 MODULE_VERSION for scsi drivers Matt Domsch
2004-04-27  4:15 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-04-27  8:22   ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-04-27 13:10   ` Matt Domsch
2004-04-27 14:31     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-04-27 14:59       ` Matt Domsch

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