Re: [for-next 5/6] net/mlx5: Bump driver version

[Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

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On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 02:53:18PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 26 May 2017 12:55:22 -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> > >> I realize Dave has already pulled this and I'm not asking for it to be
> > >> reverted but maybe some discussion will help guide future patch submissions
> > >> which do this stuff.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Sure, although i don't think we are going to use those version fields
> > > in the future,
> > > please allow me to ask, how do you do your driver versioning ? how do
> > > you track things ?
> > > and what is your future vision regarding ethool->drv_version ?
> >
> > That's just the thing, we don't do anything with it either really. I'm
> > trying to justify its existence to myself and if you folks had some whiz
> > bang idea for a driver version I was interested in hearing what it was.
>
> FWIW I put VERMAGIC_STRING in drv_version:
>
> # ethtool -i p4p1
> driver: nfp
> version: 4.12.0-rc2-perf-00282-gc42dfc79
> ...
>
> I think I got that idea from Felix Fietkau.  The backport-ified version
> of the driver [1] uses git hash and "o-o-t" sting:
>
> # ethtool -i p4p1
> driver: nfp
> version: 49e5c6abf5b2 (o-o-t)
> ...
>
> So it's pretty easy to tell which driver the customer is using.  I
> could probably throw in the output of $(git rev-list --count HEAD) to
> have an automatic monotonically increasing "version" when built
> out-of-tree, hm...

Thanks for the pointer. I'll try to evaluate it.

>
> [1] https://github.com/Netronome/nfp-drv-kmods

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