[elrepo] ENA version not printing correctly
Phil Perry
phil at elrepo.org
Fri Jul 31 13:56:42 EDT 2020
On 31/07/2020 17:39, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> On 31/07/2020 10:02, Phil Perry wrote:
> >
> > No it's not done by design, and am not sure why ethtool is picking up
> > the kernel version instead of the module version.
> >
> > What version information does 'modinfo ena' show?
>
> I think this is an upstream kernel change. There is no version: line in
> the modinfo output for ena in newer kernels - checked on Fedora 32 with
> a 5.7.9 kernel. On CentOS 7 and 8, modinfo ena has a version: line.
>
> Trevor
>
>
Yes, seems you are correct. Upstream is gradually removing individual
driver version numbers, and where code expects a version number, the
version of the underlying kernel is used instead hence the observation here.
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