From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,
Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>,
Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>,
Shyam Saini <shyamsaini@linux.microsoft.com>,
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: remove MODULE_VERSION()
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:57:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abfGBKsrGaHyLHtA@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026031341-evolve-repeater-987b@gregkh>
On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 03:20:42PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Module "versions" do not make sense as the kernel is built all at once,
> the "version" is the overall kernel version number, so modules can not
> really be described as having a unique version given that they rely on
> the infrastructure of the whole kernel.
>
> For now, just make this an "empty" define, to keep existing code
> building properly as the tree is slowly purged of the use of this over
> time.
>
> This macro will be removed entirely in the future when there are no
> in-tree users.
Looks good:
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The removal should be an easy scriptable one after the next -rc1.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-16 8:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-13 14:20 [PATCH] module: remove MODULE_VERSION() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-13 15:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-13 17:28 ` Sami Tolvanen
2026-03-14 10:22 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-03-16 8:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-03-16 17:25 ` Sami Tolvanen
2026-03-16 10:48 ` Petr Pavlu
2026-03-13 17:07 ` Sami Tolvanen
2026-03-16 8:57 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-03-16 9:37 ` Petr Pavlu
2026-03-16 10:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-17 12:50 ` Petr Pavlu
2026-03-27 12:27 ` Nam Cao
2026-03-27 12:44 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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