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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Staging: dgnc: replace EXTRA_CFLAGS
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On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 10:05:06 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> What it is being used for?  Can it be removed?  Is it just there for
> informational purposes or does the code actually do something based on
> the value?

The value is used to create a file called version in the driver's sysfs
directory, the file is read-only.