Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jan 2006 16:32:00 -0600 | From | Matt Domsch <> | Subject | Re: MODULE_VERSION useless? (was Re: [KJ] adding missing MODULE_* stuffs) |
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 01:58:00PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 06:55:16PM -0300, Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I have two ideas about what to do with MODULE_VERSION: > > 1.- Defining MODULE_VERSION = KERNEL_VERSION > > No. > > > 2.- Schedule it for removal in one or two more versions, and automagically use > > the KERNEL_VERSION as module's version. > > No, just let the authors of the different drivers that want to use > MODULE_VERSION use it (for some people it does matter, and they keep it > up to date.) Everyone else, just don't add it if you don't care about > it.
DKMS (http://linux.dell.com/dkms/) uses it to tell if one version is newer than another. For the couple dozen modules Dell regularly cares about, the module authors have been doing a good job of keeping MODULE_VERSION correct, for exactly this reason.
> In short, leave it alone :)
Please!
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