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[68.111.84.250]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z5sm11603988pfq.3.2020.01.25.19.11.50 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 25 Jan 2020 19:11:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1] net/core: Replace driver version to be kernel version To: Leon Romanovsky Cc: "David S. Miller" , Jakub Kicinski , Michal Kubecek , Michal Kalderon , linux-netdev , RDMA mailing list References: <20200125161401.40683-1-leon@kernel.org> <20200125184958.GA2993@unreal> <20200125192435.GD2993@unreal> From: Florian Fainelli Autocrypt: addr=f.fainelli@gmail.com; keydata= mQGiBEjPuBIRBACW9MxSJU9fvEOCTnRNqG/13rAGsj+vJqontvoDSNxRgmafP8d3nesnqPyR xGlkaOSDuu09rxuW+69Y2f1TzjFuGpBk4ysWOR85O2Nx8AJ6fYGCoeTbovrNlGT1M9obSFGQ X3IzRnWoqlfudjTO5TKoqkbOgpYqIo5n1QbEjCCwCwCg3DOH/4ug2AUUlcIT9/l3pGvoRJ0E AICDzi3l7pmC5IWn2n1mvP5247urtHFs/uusE827DDj3K8Upn2vYiOFMBhGsxAk6YKV6IP0d ZdWX6fqkJJlu9cSDvWtO1hXeHIfQIE/xcqvlRH783KrihLcsmnBqOiS6rJDO2x1eAgC8meAX SAgsrBhcgGl2Rl5gh/jkeA5ykwbxA/9u1eEuL70Qzt5APJmqVXR+kWvrqdBVPoUNy/tQ8mYc nzJJ63ng3tHhnwHXZOu8hL4nqwlYHRa9eeglXYhBqja4ZvIvCEqSmEukfivk+DlIgVoOAJbh qIWgvr3SIEuR6ayY3f5j0f2ejUMYlYYnKdiHXFlF9uXm1ELrb0YX4GMHz7QnRmxvcmlhbiBG YWluZWxsaSA8Zi5mYWluZWxsaUBnbWFpbC5jb20+iGYEExECACYCGyMGCwkIBwMCBBUCCAME FgIDAQIeAQIXgAUCVF/S8QUJHlwd3wAKCRBhV5kVtWN2DvCVAJ4u4/bPF4P3jxb4qEY8I2gS 6hG0gACffNWlqJ2T4wSSn+3o7CCZNd7SLSC5BA0ESM+4EhAQAL/o09boR9D3Vk1Tt7+gpYr3 WQ6hgYVON905q2ndEoA2J0dQxJNRw3snabHDDzQBAcqOvdi7YidfBVdKi0wxHhSuRBfuOppu pdXkb7zxuPQuSveCLqqZWRQ+Cc2QgF7SBqgznbe6Ngout5qXY5Dcagk9LqFNGhJQzUGHAsIs hap1f0B1PoUyUNeEInV98D8Xd/edM3mhO9nRpUXRK9Bvt4iEZUXGuVtZLT52nK6Wv2EZ1TiT OiqZlf1P+vxYLBx9eKmabPdm3yjalhY8yr1S1vL0gSA/C6W1o/TowdieF1rWN/MYHlkpyj9c Rpc281gAO0AP3V1G00YzBEdYyi0gaJbCEQnq8Vz1vDXFxHzyhgGz7umBsVKmYwZgA8DrrB0M oaP35wuGR3RJcaG30AnJpEDkBYHznI2apxdcuTPOHZyEilIRrBGzDwGtAhldzlBoBwE3Z3MY 31TOpACu1ZpNOMysZ6xiE35pWkwc0KYm4hJA5GFfmWSN6DniimW3pmdDIiw4Ifcx8b3mFrRO BbDIW13E51j9RjbO/nAaK9ndZ5LRO1B/8Fwat7bLzmsCiEXOJY7NNpIEpkoNoEUfCcZwmLrU +eOTPzaF6drw6ayewEi5yzPg3TAT6FV3oBsNg3xlwU0gPK3v6gYPX5w9+ovPZ1/qqNfOrbsE FRuiSVsZQ5s3AAMFD/9XjlnnVDh9GX/r/6hjmr4U9tEsM+VQXaVXqZuHKaSmojOLUCP/YVQo 7IiYaNssCS4FCPe4yrL4FJJfJAsbeyDykMN7wAnBcOkbZ9BPJPNCbqU6dowLOiy8AuTYQ48m vIyQ4Ijnb6GTrtxIUDQeOBNuQC/gyyx3nbL/lVlHbxr4tb6YkhkO6shjXhQh7nQb33FjGO4P WU11Nr9i/qoV8QCo12MQEo244RRA6VMud06y/E449rWZFSTwGqb0FS0seTcYNvxt8PB2izX+ HZA8SL54j479ubxhfuoTu5nXdtFYFj5Lj5x34LKPx7MpgAmj0H7SDhpFWF2FzcC1bjiW9mjW HaKaX23Awt97AqQZXegbfkJwX2Y53ufq8Np3e1542lh3/mpiGSilCsaTahEGrHK+lIusl6mz Joil+u3k01ofvJMK0ZdzGUZ/aPMZ16LofjFA+MNxWrZFrkYmiGdv+LG45zSlZyIvzSiG2lKy kuVag+IijCIom78P9jRtB1q1Q5lwZp2TLAJlz92DmFwBg1hyFzwDADjZ2nrDxKUiybXIgZp9 aU2d++ptEGCVJOfEW4qpWCCLPbOT7XBr+g/4H3qWbs3j/cDDq7LuVYIe+wchy/iXEJaQVeTC y5arMQorqTFWlEOgRA8OP47L9knl9i4xuR0euV6DChDrguup2aJVU4hPBBgRAgAPAhsMBQJU X9LxBQkeXB3fAAoJEGFXmRW1Y3YOj4UAn3nrFLPZekMeqX5aD/aq/dsbXSfyAKC45Go0YyxV HGuUuzv+GKZ6nsysJ7kCDQRXG8fwARAA6q/pqBi5PjHcOAUgk2/2LR5LjjesK50bCaD4JuNc YDhFR7Vs108diBtsho3w8WRd9viOqDrhLJTroVckkk74OY8r+3t1E0Dd4wHWHQZsAeUvOwDM PQMqTUBFuMi6ydzTZpFA2wBR9x6ofl8Ax+zaGBcFrRlQnhsuXLnM1uuvS39+pmzIjasZBP2H UPk5ifigXcpelKmj6iskP3c8QN6x6GjUSmYx+xUfs/GNVSU1XOZn61wgPDbgINJd/THGdqiO iJxCLuTMqlSsmh1+E1dSdfYkCb93R/0ZHvMKWlAx7MnaFgBfsG8FqNtZu3PCLfizyVYYjXbV WO1A23riZKqwrSJAATo5iTS65BuYxrFsFNPrf7TitM8E76BEBZk0OZBvZxMuOs6Z1qI8YKVK UrHVGFq3NbuPWCdRul9SX3VfOunr9Gv0GABnJ0ET+K7nspax0xqq7zgnM71QEaiaH17IFYGS sG34V7Wo3vyQzsk7qLf9Ajno0DhJ+VX43g8+AjxOMNVrGCt9RNXSBVpyv2AMTlWCdJ5KI6V4 KEzWM4HJm7QlNKE6RPoBxJVbSQLPd9St3h7mxLcne4l7NK9eNgNnneT7QZL8fL//s9K8Ns1W t60uQNYvbhKDG7+/yLcmJgjF74XkGvxCmTA1rW2bsUriM533nG9gAOUFQjURkwI8jvMAEQEA AYkCaAQYEQIACQUCVxvH8AIbAgIpCRBhV5kVtWN2DsFdIAQZAQIABgUCVxvH8AAKCRCH0Jac RAcHBIkHD/9nmfog7X2ZXMzL9ktT++7x+W/QBrSTCTmq8PK+69+INN1ZDOrY8uz6htfTLV9+ e2W6G8/7zIvODuHk7r+yQ585XbplgP0V5Xc8iBHdBgXbqnY5zBrcH+Q/oQ2STalEvaGHqNoD UGyLQ/fiKoLZTPMur57Fy1c9rTuKiSdMgnT0FPfWVDfpR2Ds0gpqWePlRuRGOoCln5GnREA/ 2MW2rWf+CO9kbIR+66j8b4RUJqIK3dWn9xbENh/aqxfonGTCZQ2zC4sLd25DQA4w1itPo+f5 V/SQxuhnlQkTOCdJ7b/mby/pNRz1lsLkjnXueLILj7gNjwTabZXYtL16z24qkDTI1x3g98R/ xunb3/fQwR8FY5/zRvXJq5us/nLvIvOmVwZFkwXc+AF+LSIajqQz9XbXeIP/BDjlBNXRZNdo dVuSU51ENcMcilPr2EUnqEAqeczsCGpnvRCLfVQeSZr2L9N4svNhhfPOEscYhhpHTh0VPyxI pPBNKq+byuYPMyk3nj814NKhImK0O4gTyCK9b+gZAVvQcYAXvSouCnTZeJRrNHJFTgTgu6E0 caxTGgc5zzQHeX67eMzrGomG3ZnIxmd1sAbgvJUDaD2GrYlulfwGWwWyTNbWRvMighVdPkSF 6XFgQaosWxkV0OELLy2N485YrTr2Uq64VKyxpncLh50e2RnyAJ9qfUATKC9NgZjRvBztfqy4 a9BQwACgnzGuH1BVeT2J0Ra+ZYgkx7DaPR0= Message-ID: <3ef38b44-a584-d6c4-5d3b-ed2fdfb743ee@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 19:11:49 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200125192435.GD2993@unreal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On 1/25/2020 11:24 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 08:49:58PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 08:55:01AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 1/25/2020 8:14 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: >>>> From: Leon Romanovsky >>>> >>>> In order to stop useless driver version bumps and unify output >>>> presented by ethtool -i, let's overwrite the version string. >>>> >>>> Before this change: >>>> [leonro@erver ~]$ ethtool -i eth0 >>>> driver: virtio_net >>>> version: 1.0.0 >>>> After this change: >>>> [leonro@server ~]$ ethtool -i eth0 >>>> driver: virtio_net >>>> version: 5.5.0-rc6+ >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky > --- >>>> Changelog: >>>> v1: Resend per-Dave's request >>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20200125.101311.1924780619716720495.davem@davemloft.net >>>> No changes at all and applied cleanly on top of "3333e50b64fe Merge branch 'mlxsw-Offload-TBF'" >>>> v0: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20200123130541.30473-1-leon@kernel.org >>> >>> There does not appear to be any explanation why we think this is a good >>> idea for *all* drivers, and not just the ones that are purely virtual? >> >> We beat this dead horse too many times already, latest discussion and >> justification can be found in that thread. >> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20200122152627.14903-1-michal.kalderon@marvell.com/T/#md460ff8f976c532a89d6860411c3c50bb811038b >> >> However, it was discussed in ksummit mailing list too and overall >> agreement that version exposed by in-tree modules are useless and >> sometimes even worse. They mislead users to expect some features >> or lack of them based on this arbitrary string. >> >>> >>> Are you not concerned that this is ABI and that specific userland may be >>> relying on a specific info format and we could now be breaking their >>> version checks? I do not disagree that the version is not particularly >>> useful for in-tree kernel, but this is ABI, and breaking user-space is >>> usually a source of support questions. >> >> See this Linus's response: >> "The unified policy is pretty much that version codes do not matter, do >> not exist, and do not get updated. >> >> Things are supposed to be backwards and forwards compatible, because >> we don't accept breakage in user space anyway. So versioning is >> pointless, and only causes problems." >> https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit-discuss/CA+55aFx9A=5cc0QZ7CySC4F2K7eYaEfzkdYEc9JaNgCcV25=rg@mail.gmail.com/ >> >> I also don't think that declaring every print in the kernel as ABI is >> good thing to do. We are not breaking binary ABI and continuing to >> supply some sort of versioning, but in unified format and not in wild >> west way like it is now. >> >> So bottom line, if some REAL user space application (not test suites) relies >> on specific version reported from ethtool, it is already broken and can't work >> sanely for stable@, distros and upstream kernels. > > And about support questions, > I'm already over-asked to update our mlx5 driver version every time some > of our developers adds new feature (every week or two), which is insane. > So I prefer to have one stable solution in the kernel. Fair enough, can you spin a new version which provides this background discussion and links into your commit message? -- Florian