From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Ferre Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] net/macb: macb_get_drvinfo: add GEM/MACB suffix to differentiate revision Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:01:34 +0200 Message-ID: <5048ACBE.2030205@atmel.com> References: <1346887671.5325.47.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , , , , , , , To: Ben Hutchings Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1346887671.5325.47.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 09/06/2012 01:27 AM, Ben Hutchings : > On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 11:00 +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote: >> Add an indication about which revision of the hardware we are running in >> info->driver string. >> >> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre >> --- >> drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c | 4 ++++ >> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c >> index bd331fd..c7c39f1 100644 >> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c >> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c >> @@ -1313,6 +1313,10 @@ static void macb_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev, >> struct macb *bp = netdev_priv(dev); >> >> strcpy(info->driver, bp->pdev->dev.driver->name); >> + if (macb_is_gem(bp)) >> + strcat(info->driver, " GEM"); >> + else >> + strcat(info->driver, " MACB"); >> strcpy(info->version, "$Revision: 1.14 $"); > > Related to hardware revisions (which don't belong here, as David said), > I rather doubt this CVS ID is very useful as a driver version. > > If the driver doesn't have a meaningful version (aside from the kernel > version) then you can remove this function and let the ethtool core fill > in the other two fields automatically. Absolutely, I will do this. Thanks for the tip. Best regards, -- Nicolas Ferre