From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>,
Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Michal Kalderon <michal.kalderon@marvell.com>,
RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/core: Replace driver version to be kernel version
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 07:08:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200127060835.GA570@unicorn.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b05ea7dd-d985-66b5-07c6-9c1d7ba74429@pensando.io>
On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 02:57:21PM -0800, Shannon Nelson wrote:
> On 1/26/20 2:22 PM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 02:12:38PM -0800, Shannon Nelson wrote:
> > > Part of the pain of supporting our users is getting them to give us useful
> > > information about their problem. The more commands I need them to run to
> > > get information about the environment, the less likely I will get anything
> > > useful. We've been training our users over the years to use "ethtool -i" to
> > > get a good chunk of that info, with the knowledge that the driver version is
> > > only a hint, based upon the distro involved. I don't want to lose that
> > > hint. If anything, I'd prefer that we added a field for UTS_RELEASE in the
> > > ethtool output, but I know that's too much to ask.
> >
> > At the same time, I've been trying to explain both our L1/L2 support
> > guys and our customers that "driver version" information reported by
> > "ethtool -i" is almost useless and that if they really want to identify
> > driver version, they should rather use srcversion as reported by modinfo
> > or sysfs.
>
> So as I suggested elsewhere, can we compromise by not bashing the driver
> string in the caller stack, but require the in-kernel drivers to use a
> particular macro that will put the kernel/git version into the string? This
> allows out-of-tree drivers the option of overriding the version with some
> other string that can be meaningful in any other given old or new distro
> kernel. This should be easy to enforce mechanically with checkpatch, and
> easy enough to do a sweeping coccinelle change on the existing drivers.
Personally, I rather liked what Jakub suggested earlier: set
ethtool_drvinfo::version to kernel version before ops->get_drvinfo() is called
in ethtool_get_drvinfo() (and its netlink counterpart once we get some
consensus about what information should be in the message), clean up in-tree
drivers so that they don't touch it and add a coccinelle check so that we keep
in-tree drivers compliant; this would allow out-of-tree drivers to overwrite
ethtool_drvinfo::version with whatever they want.
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-27 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-23 13:05 [PATCH net-next] net/core: Replace driver version to be kernel version Leon Romanovsky
2020-01-23 14:40 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-01-23 14:54 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-01-23 15:17 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-01-25 9:13 ` David Miller
2020-01-26 18:56 ` Shannon Nelson
2020-01-26 19:41 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-01-26 20:49 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-01-26 21:08 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-01-26 21:17 ` Shannon Nelson
2020-01-26 21:24 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-01-26 22:12 ` Shannon Nelson
2020-01-26 22:22 ` Michal Kubecek
2020-01-26 22:57 ` Shannon Nelson
2020-01-27 6:08 ` Michal Kubecek [this message]
2020-01-27 6:42 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-01-27 5:18 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-01-26 21:33 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-01-26 22:21 ` Shannon Nelson
2020-01-27 5:34 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-01-27 6:45 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-01-27 14:21 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-01-27 15:39 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-01-27 5:49 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-01-27 12:21 ` David Miller
2020-01-27 12:42 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-01-27 12:47 ` David Miller
2020-01-27 17:57 ` Shannon Nelson
2020-01-26 20:52 ` Shannon Nelson
2020-01-26 21:19 ` Leon Romanovsky
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