Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Driver and/or module versions

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:32:45PM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 25/06/2017 at 22:05:29 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:37:12AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> > > 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).
>> >
>> > I see it differently, from my point of view, it is pretty active,
>> > especially in the subsystems where new drivers are added more often,
>> > but if you say that the policy exists, it is enough for me.
>> >
>>
>> A while ago, I went and removed all of them from the RTC subsystem.
>
> I assume that you are referring to the commit fa5691131a87 ("rtc: remove useless DRV_VERSION").
>
> Let's see how similar patch will be accepted in RDMA, netdev communities.

The only version that matters is CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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