RE: [PATCH v2 3/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add ethtool support

From: Razvan Stefanescu
Date: Tue Oct 03 2017 - 01:25:01 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2017 18:37
> To: Razvan Stefanescu <razvan.stefanescu@xxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] staging: fsl-dpaa2/ethsw: Add ethtool support
>
> Hi Razvan
>
> > +static void ethsw_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *netdev,
> > + struct ethtool_drvinfo *drvinfo)
> > +{
> > + struct ethsw_port_priv *port_priv = netdev_priv(netdev);
> > + u16 version_major, version_minor;
> > + int err;
> > +
> > + strlcpy(drvinfo->driver, KBUILD_MODNAME, sizeof(drvinfo->driver));
> > + strlcpy(drvinfo->version, ethsw_drv_version, sizeof(drvinfo->version));
>
> Software driver versions are mostly useless. I would suggest you
> remove this.
>
> Andrew
Thank you. I'll remove it in v3.

Best regards,
Razvan S.