From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E8E9F284881 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:43:01 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773150182; cv=none; b=nvYARTri+VtSWORr85XPVrNhfQVP1UfaaNVt43evVHpBF8+Oqx1FBNixP6rs41TMU5frpdYqjhpzqNpCrPYSbZGc2ndr+oh0UQzhL2TcYj4MrM/XnSke33E7mc7199eb5mWWjwoOmln6Zg9hs5Dezpipuj+n/7Zrbhh1EV6o5Vk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773150182; c=relaxed/simple; bh=/vRKfTAuM0lN9iIcxBK28IJFXSPh44p8WPnucfqQYTM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=FJmGw6BQwUgeglqb0E3PjX/DXGNJcZsckY9/9hj+e97nd9kcx2Iu5ACmHml9zqUiNMj/R8MTCobUG5KhzDNiFms5xmwPepimOhKhymKlTu/HNxJ/mm/PkzxhNZmLRtU9/q4AOCp6nbLO5TyN2DSAixhjIMSnZyUmA8MMRCLeZFw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=BI1pD+Ge; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=bombadil.srs.infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="BI1pD+Ge" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=HPr3VNpZvGATaeAnIPOuxdkTlu7p9Toj6KiaZUX0HaQ=; b=BI1pD+Ge3FPV8T96NSf60BHezQ Wt7dSrBrl9s4PK5cLdzi19zNk/mwJc68QZTPJauZX88TkjjHuVPV00gqoqEfIBlqfwCuqEQYBlgZK x6G0D2q7Td5Yoj1KoMU+3YtCP261w7i4ef5uMBO75oKpxp/EEyiskfXEjydFc31M021p3Yu4F3Pj5 fIlgHc31wQ56lB0194BANFBDvk8kvZlfSu+fjk6SCSUQxeFogtZazVetfKCJp5vbFE2mTcPf5vBYj Ipt/FDtQY8H6Y5VGubaHtwuzfuWgcCTpRrp3nqirlQdmbfUvRneRF5o5ZPONf4DuZtFOQh+e7yyYS 6lqm3GOw==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1vzxMT-00000009chi-1TKM; Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:43:01 +0000 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:43:01 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Yafang Shao Cc: Christoph Hellwig , atomlin@atomlin.com, da.gomez@kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, mcgrof@kernel.org, petr.pavlu@suse.com, samitolvanen@google.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] module: print version for external modules in print_modules() Message-ID: References: <4215f061-488b-4c2b-98b3-45db4aabed5e@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 09:35:23PM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote: > > Why would that matter? You don't get a wild card to do things otherwise > > rejected because you contributed something before. > > Could you please explain why I am being characterized as a "leecher"? Because you're adding overhead to the kernel for your out of tree code, which only you and not the kernel project itself benefits from.