linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] Add support to capture external module's SCM version

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Message-ID: <20201123090257.GB6334@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:02:57 +0000
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Will McVicker <willmcvicker@...gle.com>
Cc:     Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...gle.com,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] Add support to capture external module's SCM
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On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 01:16:49AM +0000, Will McVicker wrote:
> These two patches add module support to capture an external module's SCM
> version as a MODULE_INFO() attribute. This allows users to identity the SCM
> version of a given kernel module by using the modinfo tool or on the device
> via sysfs:

As this obviously is of no use for in-tree modules it falls under the we
don't add code to support things that are not in tree rule and has no
business in the kernel.