On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Luis, > > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez > <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> 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. Easily, nope, hard yes. > 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. What's this "vendor-maintained" thing? > (Why not use kernel releases? not sure, probably a combination of user-interface, distro backporting > and internal systems.) Exactly, I'm alluding there's better ways to do this and to reflect provenance better, but also by prioritizing upstream development. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
