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On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 03:21:10PM +0000, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wr=
ote:
> 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 thi=
s stage.
> >https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9808651/
>
> Isn't it the case that something like this will actually break the ABI?

=46rom the responses, the answer is NO, it is not ABI.

>
> I assume that a bunch of different companies have scripts that pull out t=
he module version out of the module and make sure that it's at some value t=
hat works with the rest of their tools, right?
>
> I also have to assume that these scripts will horribly break when the val=
ue just disappears.

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

>
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>
> Thanks,
> Sasha

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