From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mb@bu3sch.de
Subject: Re: incorrect usage of UTS_RELEASE in bcm43xx_get_drvinfo
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:03:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607212103.23954.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060721185945.GA7611@suse.de>
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.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-21 19:04 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 [this message]
2006-07-21 19:12 ` Olaf Hering
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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