Subject: [PATCH net-next v1] net/core: Replace driver version to be kernel version

From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 18:14:01 +0200

From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>

In order to stop useless driver version bumps and unify output
presented by ethtool -i, let's overwrite the version string.

Before this change:
[leonro@erver ~]$ ethtool -i eth0
driver: virtio_net
version: 1.0.0
After this change:
[leonro@server ~]$ ethtool -i eth0
driver: virtio_net
version: 5.5.0-rc6+

Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
---
 Changelog:
 v1: Resend per-Dave's request
     https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/[email-masked]
     No changes at all and applied cleanly on top of "3333e50b64fe Merge branch 'mlxsw-Offload-TBF'"
 v0: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/[email-masked]
---
 net/ethtool/ioctl.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ethtool/ioctl.c b/net/ethtool/ioctl.c
index 182bffbffa78..a403decacb6d 100644
--- a/net/ethtool/ioctl.c
+++ b/net/ethtool/ioctl.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <linux/phy.h>
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/vermagic.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/sfp.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -666,6 +667,8 @@ static noinline_for_stack int ethtool_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev,
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}

+	strlcpy(info.version, UTS_RELEASE, sizeof(info.version));
+
 	/*
 	 * this method of obtaining string set info is deprecated;
 	 * Use ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO instead.
--
2.24.1