[PATCH 08/10] net/macb: macb_get_drvinfo: add GEM/MACB suffix to differentiate revision

[Nicolas Ferre]

On 09/06/2012 01:27 AM, Ben Hutchings :
> On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 11:00 +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
>> Add an indication about which revision of the hardware we are running in
>> info->driver string.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c |    4 ++++
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c
>> index bd331fd..c7c39f1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c
>> @@ -1313,6 +1313,10 @@ static void macb_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev,
>>  	struct macb *bp = netdev_priv(dev);
>>  
>>  	strcpy(info->driver, bp->pdev->dev.driver->name);
>> +	if (macb_is_gem(bp))
>> +		strcat(info->driver, " GEM");
>> +	else
>> +		strcat(info->driver, " MACB");
>>  	strcpy(info->version, "$Revision: 1.14 $");
> 
> Related to hardware revisions (which don't belong here, as David said),
> I rather doubt this CVS ID is very useful as a driver version.
> 
> If the driver doesn't have a meaningful version (aside from the kernel
> version) then you can remove this function and let the ethtool core fill
> in the other two fields automatically.

Absolutely, I will do this.

Thanks for the tip.

Best regards,
-- 
Nicolas Ferre