linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Introduce uts

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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 10:29:46 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@...cle.com>, mcgrof@...nel.org,
 russ.weight@...ux.dev, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, rafael@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Introduce uts_release

On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 00:01:26 +0900 Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> I do not see why it is useful.
> As you discussed in 3/4, if UTS_RELEASE is unneeded,
> it is better to get rid of it.

To be clear - the discussion on 3/4 was about the fact that netdev
already prints UTS_RELEASE into the version member of driver info
struct, as a default. So the drivers no longer have to. But there's 
no user-observable change there.