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On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:32:45PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 25/06/2017 at 22:05:29 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> A while ago, I went and removed all of them from the RTC subsystem.

I assume that you are referring to the commit fa5691131a87 ("rtc: remove useless DRV_VERSION").

Let's see how similar patch will be accepted in RDMA, netdev communities.

Thanks

>
>
>
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> Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
> http://free-electrons.com

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