Re: MODULE_VERSION for scsi drivers

[Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>]

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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 03:31:45PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, that thought crossed my mind at 4am too.  I just pinged Rusty,
and will see about doing such myself regardless. 

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
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