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Jani Nikula 7fb8af6798 drm: deprecate driver date
The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever
updated. The information is misleading at best.

As described in Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst:

  The driver date, formatted as YYYYMMDD, is meant to identify the date
  of the latest modification to the driver. However, as most drivers
  fail to update it, its value is mostly useless. The DRM core prints it
  to the kernel log at initialization time and passes it to userspace
  through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl.

Stop printing the driver date at init, and start returning the empty
string "" as driver date through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl.

The driver date initialization in drivers and the struct drm_driver date
member can be removed in follow-up.

Reviewed-by: Hamza Mahfooz <hamza.mahfooz@amd.com>
Acked-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240429164336.1406480-1-jani.nikula@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
2024-05-08 15:31:58 +03:00
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certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression that broke iwd as well as a divide by 2024-03-25 10:48:23 -07:00
Documentation drm: deprecate driver date 2024-05-08 15:31:58 +03:00
drivers drm: deprecate driver date 2024-05-08 15:31:58 +03:00
fs three smb3 client fixes, all also for stable 2024-04-27 11:35:40 -07:00
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kernel Misc fixes: 2024-04-28 12:11:26 -07:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Drop Gustavo Pimentel as PCI DWC Maintainer 2024-03-27 13:41:02 -05:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.