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

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 07:00:52AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 10:05:29PM +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,
>
> It takes a few years for companies to realize that the version numbers
> mean nothing.  So give it time, it will slow down.  Or you can just
> delete all of them at once, making it easier for you in the end.

OK, let's start in small scale and limit myself to MODULE_VERSION at this stage.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9808651/

Thanks

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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