Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Driver and/or module versions

[Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:41:16PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jun 2017, Darren Hart wrote:
> 
> > New features also fall into the independent tracking bucket, although 
> > your point about feature masks could reduce that need. Is there a 
> > definitive mechanism for the feature mask approach? I see a lot of 
> > sysfs_filename:value key:value pairs for this kind of thing.
> 
> Adding those sysfs attributes seems like exactly the thing that people 
> will keep forgetting to do, as there is no (real) functionality depending 
> on them.
> 
> I doubt there is any better 'description' of the 'state' of the driver 
> than SHA of the topmost commit + the tree it's related to.

This is exactly what I have been saying in my inward facing roles. Here
I'm trying to make sure I'm not missing something that makes this not
100% accurate.

For specific things, I could see those sysfs attributes being useful,
but as you say, they are informational only.

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Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center