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On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 09:03:32AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>OK, let's start in small scale and limit myself to MODULE_VERSION at this =
stage.
>https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9808651/

Isn't it the case that something like this will actually break the ABI?

I assume that a bunch of different companies have scripts that pull out the=
 module version out of the module and make sure that it's at some value tha=
t works with the rest of their tools, right?

I also have to assume that these scripts will horribly break when the value=
 just disappears.

--=20

Thanks,
Sasha=