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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 11:37:12 -0700
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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