Le 13/03/2026 à 16:46, Greg Kroah-Hartman a écrit :
On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 03:20:42PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
Module "versions" do not make sense as the kernel is built all at once,
the "version" is the overall kernel version number, so modules can not
really be described as having a unique version given that they rely on
the infrastructure of the whole kernel.
For now, just make this an "empty" define, to keep existing code
building properly as the tree is slowly purged of the use of this over
time.
This macro will be removed entirely in the future when there are no
in-tree users.
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Cc: Petr Pavlu <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <[email protected]>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <[email protected]>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <[email protected]>
Cc: Shyam Saini <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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include/linux/module.h | 56 +++++++++---------------------------------
kernel/params.c | 30 ----------------------
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
Sami just pointed out to me off-list that maybe I should also drop the
srcversion stuff too. I'll gladly do that too, does anyone know if
anyone even uses that anymore?
If I understand correctly the text in kernel/module/Kconfig, srcversion
is added only for modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION.
So as you drop MODULE_VERSION, srcversion becomes completely useless
doesn't it ?
Christophe
