From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272290AbTHOW7h (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:59:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272302AbTHOW7h (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:59:37 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-232-126.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.232.126]:11787 "HELO alpha.dyndns.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272290AbTHOW7f (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:59:35 -0400 Message-ID: <3F3D65D2.1070700@alpha.dyndns.org> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:59:30 -0700 From: Mark McClelland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030707 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Randy.Dunlap" CC: lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: remove "Linux 2.4" strings References: <20030815101143.72bbea51.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030815101143.72bbea51.rddunlap@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Randy.Dunlap wrote: >This patch removes "Linux 2.4" printed strings from a few >drivers and net protocols. > >Instead of changing them to "Linux 2.6", they should just >be deleted, I think. Other suggestions? > These strings are sometimes useful to maintainers when handling bug reports. Vendors and users often replace drivers with out-of-tree versions to gain features that aren't included in the in-kernel version (because of licensing issues, etc...). I have had this happen with ov511 a number of times, so I add the "for Linux 2.4" now. -- Mark McClelland mark@alpha.dyndns.org