netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/core: Replace driver version to be kernel version

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Date:   Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:17:52 -0800
From:   Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Michal Kalderon <michal.kalderon@...vell.com>,
        linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/core: Replace driver version to be kernel
 version

On 1/26/20 1:08 PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> The long-standing policy in kernel that we don't really care about
> out-of-tree code.

That doesn't mean we need to be aggressively against out-of-tree code.  
One of the positive points about Linux and loadable modules has always 
been the flexibility that allows and encourages innovation, and helps 
enable more work and testing before a driver can become a fully-fledged 
part of the kernel.  This move actively discourages part of that 
flexibility and I think it is breaking part of the usefulness of modules.

sln