[PATCH 19/20] staging: octeon-ethernet: eliminate OCTEON_ETHERNET_VERSION

Aaro Koskinen aaro.koskinen at iki.fi
Sat Apr 4 19:51:20 UTC 2015


This driver has drifted away from out-of-tree versions years ago
and the version string does not provide any useful information.
Instead provide the kernel version string to ethtool, so that we get
useful version information e.g. for bug reports.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen at iki.fi>
---
 drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-defines.h | 3 ---
 drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c    | 6 +++---
 drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c         | 1 -
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-defines.h b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-defines.h
index 8a6f82f..2c98623 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-defines.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-defines.h
@@ -43,9 +43,6 @@
 
 #include <asm/octeon/cvmx-config.h>
 
-
-#define OCTEON_ETHERNET_VERSION "1.9"
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_NETFILTER
 #define REUSE_SKBUFFS_WITHOUT_FREE  0
 #else
diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c
index 6322d0d..2286aca 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-mdio.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 #include <linux/phy.h>
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include <linux/of_mdio.h>
-
+#include <generated/utsrelease.h>
 #include <net/dst.h>
 
 #include <asm/octeon/octeon.h>
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@
 static void cvm_oct_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev,
 				struct ethtool_drvinfo *info)
 {
-	strlcpy(info->driver, "cavium-ethernet", sizeof(info->driver));
-	strlcpy(info->version, OCTEON_ETHERNET_VERSION, sizeof(info->version));
+	strlcpy(info->driver, KBUILD_MODNAME, sizeof(info->driver));
+	strlcpy(info->version, UTS_RELEASE, sizeof(info->version));
 	strlcpy(info->bus_info, "Builtin", sizeof(info->bus_info));
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c
index 75e299b..331fb6a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet.c
@@ -671,7 +671,6 @@ static int cvm_oct_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	struct device_node *pip;
 
 	octeon_mdiobus_force_mod_depencency();
-	pr_notice("cavium-ethernet %s\n", OCTEON_ETHERNET_VERSION);
 
 	pip = pdev->dev.of_node;
 	if (!pip) {
-- 
2.3.3



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