From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Driver and/or module versions
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 11:37:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFyM7X2jWYyNeA-AgbV1A-aYJaRBsPZCG+GeO9L8W1Rqww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170625181954.GU1248@mtr-leonro.local>
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).
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-25 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-25 7:24 Leon Romanovsky
2017-06-25 17:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-06-25 18:19 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-06-25 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2017-06-25 19:05 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-06-25 21:32 ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-06-26 4:51 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-06-26 6:47 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-06-26 5:00 ` Greg KH
2017-06-26 6:03 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-06-26 15:21 ` Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
2017-06-26 18:25 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-06-30 16:21 ` Darren Hart
2017-07-03 20:41 ` Jiri Kosina
2017-07-03 21:25 ` Darren Hart
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