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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
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On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:37:12AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Great, so why are we continuing to allow patches with MODULE_VERSION and
> > DRIVER_VERSION changes?
>
> I suspect they just haven't caused problems elsewhere.
>
> And honestly, they aren't that common. Grepping for MODULE_VERSION and
> DRIVER_VERSION shows more than I would like, but we're talking
> hundreds, not thousands (and lots of them are basically dead, stale
> code - ATA etc, or just joke names - usb).

I see it differently, from my point of view, it is pretty active,
especially in the subsystems where new drivers are added more often,
but if you say that the policy exists, it is enough for me.

Thanks

>
>                   Linus

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