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 6192C382368; Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:57:41 +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=1773651465; cv=none; b=VspiS7kx6iRvgMFpvlC8k4XzedQAaUmXBCFdB1sgwBpmR8R7LDtX36dL7VUdOXda3eA16tqORKJhFvjWJE2gC8LX8aHbWeikq4gX+lr4uOplI1GAdMOqJP+AlrRHfTMVlOvc3dOMdoZEAj2622HMhZZhmS/LfuQRFnq+1LKX9u0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773651465; c=relaxed/simple; bh=SCf1RFUQzCz8Y4ad7IZGpSyhj6FrCuBaRU/GdYeQ/Ew=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=DAhR+l8H3/Xj9V5gn7jrEu0rD/na332wk8vAtLIG4oCUfpRcwP6MVsPEyf5nmqmCU/MWv4qm3RzCWaiSj1KlUfq3Cngspp03MBiZaldt4frtNvqonrsx7P4x+kvdHQkzbVJJpwP3cs6QPLzlItFmTVnONulOg5wS0EiroekajjM= 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=kPyb1OSr; 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="kPyb1OSr" 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=5vhN9U2pPDWEsUGYLhkenSRF13hw4G4rHsoAC7E75ms=; b=kPyb1OSrE+MaupU/fc6qzYBU9k 7ARw9fmOPWVcifm7GvanauLW00ilixDD5nsSvmixLYn1RJSoOIAMq2A3lTqDXlHWdrHdNaQHm1rrN uBOtFt+ICRXf3HUnsP/ECvx+ReA0B6aAxFN2Kq9BPJGvNbrBqg9Fm9woyUIbH+eKwIyqL5M7RWBk6 vtoEAL+kzNSYt/1bnifHw1jBnKtBGVVOO029ZQgz6hkgEUUYcr4wKz3Yd1LVAZ5fWElBeEf7uoK6R plYoYE56OiU5WgpXX1jmlyfQky5tTRxnHEV0FROVu2/SNHzlOvb/QKh3Qm6umuR6UFutaBQlQd8Dk WA0d5i1w==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1w23lc-00000003aOI-0JEh; Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:57:40 +0000 Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:57:40 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Luis Chamberlain , Petr Pavlu , Daniel Gomez , Sami Tolvanen , Aaron Tomlin , Shyam Saini , Kees Cook , Thorsten Blum , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] module: remove MODULE_VERSION() Message-ID: References: <2026031341-evolve-repeater-987b@gregkh> 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: <2026031341-evolve-repeater-987b@gregkh> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html 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 The removal should be an easy scriptable one after the next -rc1.