drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c:18:#define DRV_VERSION "1.1.13"
drivers/net/e100/e100_main.c:140:char e100_driver_version[]="2.1.29-k4";
drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.c:88:#define SCSI_NCR_DRIVER_NAME "sym53c8xx-1.7.3c-20010512"
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:256:#define AIC7XXX_C_VERSION "5.2.6"
drivers/serial/8250.c:2159:MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Generic 8250/16x50 serial driver $Revision: 1.90 $");
And I'm sure there are worse examples. My proposal is simple:
#define MODULE_VERSION(version) \
static const char __module_version[] \
__attribute__((section(".init.version"), unused)) = version
and add the .init.version section to vmlinux.lds in the `freed after
init' section.
The tools can catch up to use this kind of thing later; we need to
standardise the source code to use this first.
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