Re: MODULE_VERSION useless? (was Re: [KJ] adding missing MODULE_* stuffs)

From: Håkon Løvdal
Date: Sun Jan 08 2006 - 18:40:02 EST


On 1/8/06, Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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