[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Driver and/or module versions
Linus Torvalds
torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Sun Jun 25 18:37:12 UTC 2017
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Leon Romanovsky <leon at 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
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