On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 01:58:41AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 11:22:22AM +0100, Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) wrote:
> > > 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 ?
> 
> Looks like it.

Looking at modpost, srcversions are added to all modules if
MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is enabled, whether they have MODULE_VERSION or
not. Doesn't mean it's not completely useless, of course.

Sami

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