Re: iwlwifi

[Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>]

On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 13:52 +0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:46:07 +0800
> 
> > I'm trying allmodconfig on wireless-testing now. It takes some time to
> > finish make. But a simple running "make M=drivers/net/wireless/" twice
> > doesn't show this issue.
> > 
> 
> It's the include of generated/utsrelease.h by iwl-core.h that causes
> the rebuild.

Thanks. It was first introduced by below commit. And was later changed
to use generated/utsrelease.h. I'm wondering if we should really use
linux/utsrelease.h (or linux/version.h) or remove the kernel version
totally from the driver version (driver compile tag can be remained).
Any suggestions?

Thanks,
-yi

commit 900bb717424e5df12b1ef7ebb017be2a8915b806
Author: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 2 12:53:01 2009 -0800

    iwlwifi: driver version track kernel version
    
    The driver version number is a remnant from when there was an out-of-tree
    iwlwifi driver. Now that the driver forms part of kernel source we do not
    need a separate driver version. Instead, we now use the kernel version as
    driver version. We maintain the previous tags used to indicate which
    components the driver has been compiled with.