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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: info@metux.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jchapman@katalix.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: l2tp: remove unneeded MODULE_VERSION() usage
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 11:04:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191216090426.GA66555@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191212.110354.354662228217900367.davem@davemloft.net>

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 11:03:54AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <info@metux.net>
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:36:13 +0100
>
> > Remove MODULE_VERSION(), as it isn't needed at all: the only version
> > making sense is the kernel version.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <info@metux.net>
>
> Is there a plan to remove MODULE_VERSION across the entire kernel tree?
>
> Where is that documented?
>
> Otherwise what gave you the reason to make this change in the first place?

Dave, see this conversation which I had two years ago with positive
responses from many respectable developers.
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2017-June/004421.html

Greg's response:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2017-June/004441.html
Linus's response:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2017-June/004426.html

Thanks

>
> No context, no high level explanation of what's going on, so it's hard
> to review and decide whether to accept your change sorry.
>
> At the least, you will have to write a more complete commit log message.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-16  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-12 13:36 [PATCH] net: l2tp: remove unneeded MODULE_VERSION() usage Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-12-12 19:03 ` David Miller
2019-12-16  8:38   ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-12-16  9:04   ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]

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