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

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:21:14 +0100 (CET)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     leon@...nel.org
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, snelson@...sando.io, michal.kalderon@...vell.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/core: Replace driver version to be kernel
 version

From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 07:49:55 +0200

> We, RDMA and many other subsystems mentioned in that ksummit thread,
> removed MODULE_VERSION() a long time ago and got zero complains from
> the real users.

Changes to RDMA have a disproportionate level of impact compared to
all of netdev.

So comparing the level of real or perceived potential impact is quite
intellectually dishonest.