From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Adam J. Richter" Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 03:29:37 +0000 Subject: device id version _string_? Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Hello, Keith. I was wondering what you think of the idea of having a short version string for a device ID structure rather than a version number. The advantage of this is that it allows modified kernels to ensure that an incompatible version of depmod will complain about an unknown version string without requiring central coordination to hand out version numbers or determine an order to them. It could also make the naming more mnemonic. For example, let's say Yellow Dog decides to ship an enhanced version of (future) FireWire ID's. They might set their firewire_device_id version string to string to "yellow1" to ensure that people use a depmod that supports their kernel (or at least get a warning about it so they can expect firewire hot plugging not to work). Later, if that format is rolled into the standard kernel or you want to support it from the stock modutils, you could integrate the code that handles that particular version string value. Adam J. Richter __ ______________ 4880 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 104 adam@yggdrasil.com \ / San Jose, California 95129-1034 +1 408 261-6630 | g g d r a s i l United States of America fax +1 408 261-6631 "Free Software For The Rest Of Us." _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel