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From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
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On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:11:17PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:

> This patch adds version information as reported by 
> ethtool -i to the Spidernet driver.

Why does a driver that's in the mainline kernel need to have a version
number besides the kernel version?

I can understand it for drivers like e1000 that Intel maintain outside
of the kernel as well. But spidernet is a fully mainline maintained
driver, right?


-Olof