From: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2022 12:57 AM > > Sat, 24 Sep 2022 05:31:34 +0000 "Michael Kelley (LINUX)" <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > From: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2022 2:09 PM > > > > A very long time ago I removed most usage of version.h AFAIR, > > Could you elaborate? > > It is the cost of 'make LOCALVERSION=x' vs. 'make LOCALVERSION=y'. > > Too many drivers will be recompiled for no good reason as of today. > I claim no consumer below drivers/ and sound/ has a valid usecase for version.h. > But, someone else has to take the energy and argue them out of the tree. > > With the proposed change every consumer of asm-generic/mshyperv.h will be dirty, > see 'touch include/asm-generic/mshyperv.h' for the impact. Therefore I think > only the two existing c files should include this header, in case the provided > information has a true value for the consumer. > Thanks, Olaf. That makes sense and I agree. Li Kunyu -- that means you should "undo" part of your patch. Keep the use of LINUX_VERSION_CODE and the #include of <linux/version.h> in the two .c files, and pass LINUX_VERSION_CODE as an argument to hv_generate_guest_id(). Remove the #include of <linux/version.h> from include/asm-generic/mshyperv.h. Michael