From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara <carlos@embedded.cl>
Cc: kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org, Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MODULE_VERSION useless? (was Re: [KJ] adding missing MODULE_* stuffs)
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:58:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060108215800.GA31398@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601081855.17723.carlos@embedded.cl>
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 06:55:16PM -0300, Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have two ideas about what to do with MODULE_VERSION:
> 1.- Defining MODULE_VERSION = KERNEL_VERSION
No.
> 2.- Schedule it for removal in one or two more versions, and automagically use
> the KERNEL_VERSION as module's version.
No, just let the authors of the different drivers that want to use
MODULE_VERSION use it (for some people it does matter, and they keep it
up to date.) Everyone else, just don't add it if you don't care about
it.
> Any comments?
In short, leave it alone :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-08 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-01-08 20:45 ` MODULE_VERSION useless? (was Re: [KJ] adding missing MODULE_* stuffs) Alexey Dobriyan
2006-01-08 21:55 ` Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara
2006-01-08 21:58 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-01-08 22:32 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-08 22:33 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-08 22:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-01-08 23:41 ` Håkon Løvdal
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