[PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date

[Jani Nikula]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2024, Hamza Mahfooz <hamza.mahfooz at amd.com> wrote:
> On 4/29/24 12:43, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> 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 would prefer if it was dropped entirely in this patch, but if you feel
> that would require too much back and forth, I'm okay with what is
> currently proposed.

I can if that's what people prefer, but decided to start with this for
the inevitable discussion before putting in the effort. ;)

> Reviewed-by: Hamza Mahfooz <hamza.mahfooz at amd.com>

Thanks,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel