> The real problem with driver versioning as it stands (and Steve's proposal) > is that when a driver is made up of multiple source files, modifying any > one of those ostensibly changes the driver. But the "version" is kept in > only one of those files. Thus the developer has to make a conscious > decision to apply an "empty delta" to the file with the version string in > order to bump it. That's not always done -- either deliberately or not -- > and makes the version string next to useless. > > My preference would be to replace it with the build date and/or the > changeset hash of tip when the gate was built. That's a lot of info to > shove into the modinfo line, so the question that gets raised in my mind > is, "what are the actual requirements from Sun's service folks and anyone > else who uses modinfo output to look for a version number?"
I strongly second these points. -- meem _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
