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!
--
Matt Domsch
Software Architect
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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