2.5 and devfs versioning

2.5 and devfs versioning

[Andrey Borzenkov]

{pts/2}% dmesg | head -1
Linux version 2.5.75-1borsmp ...

{pts/2}% dmesg | grep devfs
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=2575-1borsmp ro root=345 devfs=mount
devfs: v1.22 (20021013) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)

well, this is not quite correct to put it mildly. It has been so much changed 
that IMHO it needs own version just to avoid confusion.

-andrey

Re: 2.5 and devfs versioning

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 11:32:46AM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> {pts/2}% dmesg | head -1
> Linux version 2.5.75-1borsmp ...
> 
> {pts/2}% dmesg | grep devfs
> Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=2575-1borsmp ro root=345 devfs=mount
> devfs: v1.22 (20021013) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
> 
> well, this is not quite correct to put it mildly. It has been so much changed 
> that IMHO it needs own version just to avoid confusion.

Just rip out the whole printk then.  Componentes that are maintained inside
the kernel tree don't need version numbers.

[PATCH] Remove mtrr version printk

[Diego Calleja García]

El Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:25:43 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> escribió:

> Just rip out the whole printk then.  Componentes that are maintained inside
> the kernel tree don't need version numbers.



So I guess this would be right.


diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c~nuke_mtrrver arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
--- unsta.moo/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c~nuke_mtrrver	2003-07-14 20:29:53.000000000 +0200
+++ unsta.moo-diego/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c	2003-07-14 20:34:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@
 #include <asm/msr.h>
 #include "mtrr.h"
 
-#define MTRR_VERSION            "2.0 (20020519)"
-
 u32 num_var_ranges = 0;
 
 unsigned int *usage_table;
@@ -677,7 +675,6 @@ static int __init mtrr_init(void)
 			break;
 		}
 	}
-	printk("mtrr: v%s\n",MTRR_VERSION);
 
 	if (mtrr_if) {
 		set_num_var_ranges();

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