From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Lunz Subject: Re: incorrect usage of UTS_RELEASE in bcm43xx_get_drvinfo Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:05:09 -0400 Message-ID: <20060721200509.GB15478@knob.reflex> References: <20060721185945.GA7611@suse.de> <200607212103.23954.mb@bu3sch.de> <20060721191329.GA15478@knob.reflex> <200607212127.23786.mb@bu3sch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Olaf Hering , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.reflexsecurity.com ([72.54.64.74]:33712 "EHLO crown.reflexsecurity.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751150AbWGUUFN (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:05:13 -0400 To: Michael Buesch Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607212127.23786.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 09:27:23PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > What is a major change? Why only on major change? Why not on > simple changes, too? Simple changes sometimes introduce bugs, too. the version number has whatever meaning you choose to assign to it. Including none, if you so choose. > What I wanted to say: I _never_ had debugging-problems, because > I did not know the source state it was compiled from. fair enough. The version field certainly doesn't seem to get much use in other net drivers. Jason