Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/34] hdlcdrv: Drop __TIME__ usage

From: Michal Marek <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:56:50 +0200

On 19.4.2011 12:17, walter harms wrote:
> Am 05.04.2011 16:59, schrieb Michal Marek:
>> --- a/drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c
>> @@ -749,7 +749,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(hdlcdrv_unregister);
>>  static int __init hdlcdrv_init_driver(void)
>>  {
>>  	printk(KERN_INFO "hdlcdrv: (C) 1996-2000 Thomas Sailer HB9JNX/AE4WA\n");
>> -	printk(KERN_INFO "hdlcdrv: version 0.8 compiled " __TIME__ " " __DATE__ "\n");
>> +	printk(KERN_INFO "hdlcdrv: version 0.8\n");
>>  	return 0;
>>  }
>>  
> 
> Its a bit late but i am not a big fan of hard coded version id's.
> Does GIT provide something like that ? If not
> IMHO the line
>  printk(KERN_INFO "hdlcdrv: version 0.8\n");
> can be removed.

OK, submit a separate patch then. I personally don't care about version
id's, as long as they do not embed any timestamp ;-).

Michal