On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 03:21:10PM +0000, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote:
> 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/
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> Isn't it the case that something like this will actually break the ABI?

From the responses, the answer is NO, it is not ABI.

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> 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 that works with the rest of their tools, right?
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> I also have to assume that these scripts will horribly break when the value just disappears.

It is the same as to rely on console prints as reliable source for those scripts. It is broken by design.

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> Thanks,
> Sasha