Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/7] Introduce MEDIA_VERSION to end KENREL_VERSION abuse in media

[Johannes Thumshirn]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:01:05AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> If you read Linus's comments on version.
> Driver version is meaningless and there is a desire to rip it out of all
> drivers. The reason is that drivers must always behave the same, i.e you
> can't use version to change API/ABI behavior. 

Indeed this causes more harm than good. We had support calls regarding the
mlx4 driver because of not incremented MODLE_VERSION()s. If we follow your
and Linus' path we shouldn't just get rid of the KERNEL_VERSION() usage
in media and replace it with a new version, but kill all the versioning
stuff out of media (and others) except for maybe the HW version.

> Any upstream driver should never use KERNEL_VERSION().

Exactly my reasoning.

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