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 9DE9F3EAC98; Tue, 4 Aug 2026 15:55:45 +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=1785858949; cv=none; b=sja3fXEJVILrcEKeMp2bVVUA8EufntY9jFPQP2EjDoSz0N2Ve8vRhVjQ63JBHOJXq11v6Lmj12igdZ413s+XR7Le+WWq0wJ9hItsfMigdYiyYycQsVRgE8lIPecou7cBoeya/FIlpKsDS/mLED2JeuUiVebylI7xhTnD2Uh4t4Q= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1785858949; c=relaxed/simple; bh=348FefFW3KfG8ml7pOSWJxBRb4s2ds1rqeNBJzuCsNM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=UEhlddNocZvJ0gDD8H6Sm2M4iaQFq1uaQfIzpnvbs2z/PufTZej6PXtvbqFY+JsGsPxN2unPjaFmWWFLDCwVA8nZrQZgU+cXd2AGcC4IaPvljl3KWHEb4VdJXdI+g4UV8E7gs5XhXN6i54NpGwR4HQ4IWf4oqkPwzgMz/UFcHj4= 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=wauY2bia; 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="wauY2bia" 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=6JIa7jcIfkYcMT1Qc75/bq+S9jWjbB8g7z9rF0o0oLc=; b=wauY2bia2VUNqfL9sY1WQyMhj+ 2KSHkCYoFhiORbhTz/d4xVBYyOmzGlMLnn7TAvnOnI0/+U9eCrm0x1MCodI9GAap1hRsWPF1iIReF UaEgs9xXvTX6KJesGaBDHFDz/sG2dYPWqGf5KYj6AA5UDSicu0nX1i5cjVZIiRBo3EhTDhh+cnVdc LRlqYeNcY8EtqIcsGm4k9BVZ6++zECR6Rv5wbJf1xBh+Ispsnzr1dhkjwr3O4owbVuHDASytPrwSD MvMZl6ObXCq6yYae4zEdZGZ2fHjuGnQsNtF+p1LgHIPFL7HF+AMjczk/3HgOMJdbgtKLfEcNInv4K PzNwwv9A==; Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.99.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1wrHUU-00000002Fc4-0FkS; Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:55:42 +0000 Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 08:55:42 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Luis Chamberlain , Petr Pavlu , Daniel Gomez , Sami Tolvanen , Aaron Tomlin , Shyam Saini , Kees Cook , Thorsten Blum , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] module: remove MODULE_VERSION() Message-ID: References: <20260731-module_ver_remove-v2-0-c9163858f382@linuxfoundation.org> <20260731-module_ver_remove-v2-1-c9163858f382@linuxfoundation.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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: <20260731-module_ver_remove-v2-1-c9163858f382@linuxfoundation.org> X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 03:02:23PM +0200, 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