[PATCH] Software Suspend 2 for ppc64 (2/2 - virtual drivers)

[Santiago Leon]

Olof... We keep version numbers because there used to be some 
backwards-compatibility issues in these drivers... To make matters 
worse, the drivers are a little different in the SLES9, RHEL4, and 
mainline trees (sometimes the distros were hesitant to apply some 
updating patches)... The latter is something that we definitely want to 
avoid, and we're working on it...


Olof Johansson wrote:
> Hi Santi,
> 
> Are the VIO drivers maintained outside of the kernel somewhere as well?
> If they're not, then there isn't really much use in having driver
> version numbers, right?
> 
> 
> -Olof
> 
> 
>>diff -urN corig/drivers/net/ibmveth.c c/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
>>--- corig/drivers/net/ibmveth.c	2005-07-14 16:55:44.000000000 -0500
>>+++ c/drivers/net/ibmveth.c	2005-07-15 08:54:04.000000000 -0500
>>@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
>> 
>> static const char ibmveth_driver_name[] = "ibmveth";
>> static const char ibmveth_driver_string[] = "IBM i/pSeries Virtual Ethernet Driver";
>>-#define ibmveth_driver_version "1.03"
>>+#define ibmveth_driver_version "1.04"
>> 
>> MODULE_AUTHOR("Santiago Leon <santil at us.ibm.com>");
>> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IBM i/pSeries Virtual Ethernet Driver");
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>>diff -urN corig/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c c/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c
>>--- corig/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c	2005-07-14 16:55:47.000000000 -0500
>>+++ c/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c	2005-07-15 08:54:20.000000000 -0500
>>@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
>> static int init_timeout = 5;
>> static int max_requests = 50;
>> 
>>-#define IBMVSCSI_VERSION "1.5.5"
>>+#define IBMVSCSI_VERSION "1.5.6"
>> 
>> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("IBM Virtual SCSI");
>> MODULE_AUTHOR("Dave Boutcher");
> 
> 


-- 
Santiago A. Leon
Power Linux Development
IBM Linux Technology Center