Remove '.date' from nvidia-drm-drv.c - nvidia-550.144.03 - Linux 6.14-rc2

leigh123linux · February 12, 2025, 8:36pm

It hasn’t been used since 6.11

drm: deprecate driver date

committed 12:31PM - 08 May 24 UTC

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>

And completely removed for 6.14

github.com/torvalds/linux

drm: remove driver date from struct drm_driver and all drivers

committed 10:35AM - 05 Dec 24 UTC

jnikula

+0 -126

We stopped using the driver initialized date in commit 7fb8af6798e8 ("drm: depre…cate driver date") and (eventually) started returning "0" for drm_version ioctl instead. Finish the job, and remove the unused date member from struct drm_driver, its initialization from drivers, along with the common DRIVER_DATE macros. v2: Also update drivers/accel (kernel test robot) Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Acked-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr> Acked-by: Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo@quicinc.com> Acked-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org> # msm Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1f2bf2543aed270a06f6c707fd6ed1b78bf16712.1733322525.git.jani.nikula@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

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Remove '.date' from nvidia-drm-drv.c - nvidia-550.144.03 - Linux 6.14-rc2

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