On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 10:13:56AM -0800, Will McVicker wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 07:51:59AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I think your decription still shows absolutely no benefit for the > > kernel, so I'not sure why anyone would want to waste time on this. > Hi Christoph, > > Did you get a chance to read my earlier responses regarding the uses for > in-tree modules? > > The biggest benefit for the upstream community is being about to get the SCM > version for *any* module (including in-tree modules) in the initramfs via the > sysfs node. Currently there is no way to do that and there is no guarantee that That assumes the SCM version of a module has any kind of meaning for an in-tree module. Which it doesn't. If you care about the SCM version of an in-tree module the only thing we need is one single global sysfs file.
