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List:       linux-wireless
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] carl9170: kill MODULE_VERSION
From:       Julian Calaby <julian.calaby () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-10-31 22:36:09
Message-ID: CAGRGNgXyyvpSfFqd+L6J166Lfu7yfWc8-zMwpTMxLzFY+Qs0nA () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi Luis,

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
>
> This is pretty pointless. Lets kill this to stop people from
> thinking that its actually used. Maybe we should go on
> a crusade and kill this completely from the kernel.

I'm sure that there are a multitude of places where MODULE_VERSION is
unnecessary, but killing it from the entire kernel simply won't
happen. I know that in the SCSI subsystem some of the
vendor-maintained drivers use this to keep track of exactly which
version is running on a given kernel. (Why not use kernel releases?
not sure, probably a combination of user-interface, distro backporting
and internal systems.)

Thanks,

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