From: "Håkon Løvdal" <hlovdal@gmail.com>
To: kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MODULE_VERSION useless? (was Re: [KJ] adding missing MODULE_* stuffs)
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 00:41:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a01a16b50601081541n582fb3e2k2b7b7fb3494330e2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601081855.17723.carlos@embedded.cl>
On 1/8/06, Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara <carlos@embedded.cl> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have two ideas about what to do with MODULE_VERSION:
> 1.- Defining MODULE_VERSION = KERNEL_VERSION
> 2.- Schedule it for removal in one or two more versions, and automagically use
> the KERNEL_VERSION as module's version.
>
> Any comments?
I think there is another option:
3. Always print KERNEL_VERSION in addition to MODULE_VERSION.
Since for some modules MODULE_VERSION is considered useful and
KERNEL_VERSION always is useful, this should give the best of both, right?
BR Håkon Løvdal
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-08 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20051230000400.GS18040@outflux.net>
2006-01-08 20:45 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-01-08 21:55 ` Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara
2006-01-08 21:58 ` Greg KH
2006-01-08 22:32 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-08 22:33 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-08 22:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-01-08 23:41 ` Håkon Løvdal [this message]
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