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.
next prev parent 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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