[PATCH] drm: deprecate driver date
Simon Ser
contact at emersion.fr
Tue Apr 30 07:53:35 UTC 2024
On Monday, April 29th, 2024 at 18:43, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com> 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.
Sounds good to me.
Acked-by: Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr>
BTW, I wonder if the driver version number (major/minor/patch) is useful?
Do drivers update it?
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