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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>
Linux kernel
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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.