[Ieee80211-devel] Re: [PATCH 24/29] ieee80211 Updated misc. copyright dates and added version reporting

[Christoph H. <hc...@in...>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 12:16:15PM -0500, James Ketrenos wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:35:57PM -0500, James Ketrenos wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Updated misc. copyright dates.
> >>Added version reporting to syslog during ieee80211 subsystem load.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >version reporting for subsystems doesn't make sense - they evolve too much
> >and should evolve with the kernel tree, not separately.
> >  
> >
> Do you have issue with reporting the version via printk, or just
> -having- versioning?
> 
> If the former, its a useful debug and troubleshooting tool, and the
> overhead is minimal.  There are other ways to get at the info (modinfo)
> but displaying the version information via printk it is used by other
> components in the kernel.

I mean not having versioning at all.  The kernel version should uniqueuely
identify major subsystems, not a version of it's own.  Development will
happen in the kernel tree anyway, and you should better start submitting
patches often and early or you will get ouf of sync with all the development
going on in mainline.

That early and often thing is true for drivers aswell, the intel wireless
driver are so hopelessly out of date in mainline just after submission that
it's not funny anymore.  Hopefully we'll have a mainline maintainer for
them soon that imports everything important from intel and other contributors.