Re: [PATCH] module: remove MODULE_VERSION()

[Sami Tolvanen]

Hi Greg,

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 <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Shyam Saini <shyamsaini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/module.h | 56 +++++++++---------------------------------
>  kernel/params.c        | 30 ----------------------
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)

This certainly solves our version problems! I noticed there are a
couple of __modver references left in the code base after this patch,
which can be dropped too, and you can also remove the version field
from struct module at the same time.

Sami