From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: incorrect usage of UTS_RELEASE in bcm43xx_get_drvinfo
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:12:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060721191224.GA7685@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607212103.23954.mb@bu3sch.de>
On Fri, Jul 21, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Friday 21 July 2006 20:59, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >
> > bcm43xx_get_drvinfo in 2.6.18-rc2 unfortunately uses UTS_RELEASE as
> > driver version. I think this specific info can be obtained by other
> > ways.
> > Can you give bcm43xx a real version number and provide it via the
> > ethtool ioctl?
>
> I am not going to maintain a bogus version number.
> What about simply returning 1.0 and be done with it.
> I don't think it matters. 1.0 is as bogus as any other value.
I'm less concerned about the actual number, just UTS_RELEASE should
disappear, and the #include.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-21 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-21 18:59 incorrect usage of UTS_RELEASE in bcm43xx_get_drvinfo Olaf Hering
2006-07-21 19:03 ` Michael Buesch
2006-07-21 19:12 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2006-07-21 19:13 ` Jason Lunz
2006-07-21 19:27 ` Michael Buesch
2006-07-21 20:05 ` Jason Lunz
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