Re: [PATCH v1 01/12] gna: add driver module

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 07:29:39PM +0100, Maciej Kwapulinski wrote:
> 
> Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 6:11 PM Maciej Kwapulinski
> > <maciej.kwapulinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> ....
> >> +#define GNA_DRV_VER    "1.2.0"
> >
> > Nowadays the version is the Git SHA sum.
> >
> 
> right, "version" is present in about 7% of all modules

And it should be removed from them.

> do You mean version should be skipped over (automatically generated)
> srcversion field? or maybe You suggest any (better) technique?

Drop it entirely from the driver code, it means nothing when the driver
is merged into the kernel tree.

thanks,

greg k-h