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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:00:13 -0500
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
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       linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Jens Osterkamp <Jens.Osterkamp@de.ibm.com>,
       James K Lewis <jklewis@us.ibm.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethtool -i version number info.
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From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
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On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:11:17PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:

> This patch adds version information as reported by 
> ethtool -i to the Spidernet driver.

Why does a driver that's in the mainline kernel need to have a version
number besides the kernel version?

I can understand it for drivers like e1000 that Intel maintain outside
of the kernel as well. But spidernet is a fully mainline maintained
driver, right?


-Olof