[PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

[Javier Martinez Canillas]

Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com> writes:

> The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever
> updated. The information is misleading at best.
>
> As described in Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst:
>
>   The driver date, formatted as YYYYMMDD, is meant to identify the date
>   of the latest modification to the driver. However, as most drivers
>   fail to update it, its value is mostly useless. The DRM core prints it
>   to the kernel log at initialization time and passes it to userspace
>   through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl.
>
> Stop printing the driver date at init, and start returning the empty
> string "" as driver date through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl.
>
> The driver date initialization in drivers and the struct drm_driver date
> member can be removed in follow-up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
>
> ---

I never understood the value of it and so this patch makes sense to me.

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com>

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Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Core Platforms
Red Hat