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

[Alexandre Belloni]

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 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).
> 
> 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.



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