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Date:   Wed, 6 Feb 2019 17:42:45 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Julien Freche <jfreche@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] vmw_balloon: bump version number
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 09:13:31PM -0800, Nadav Amit wrote:
> Following recent changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
> ---
>  drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
> index f8240b87df22..7294f305753f 100644
> --- a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
>  
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("VMware, Inc.");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("VMware Memory Control (Balloon) Driver");
> -MODULE_VERSION("1.5.0.0-k");
> +MODULE_VERSION("1.6.0.0-k");

Please just drop this pointless line, it means nothing and is always out
of date.  It's been removed from many other drivers, and I really don't
want to see it come back.

Your driver "version" is the kernel version, full stop.  That's all you
need to ever worry about.

thanks,

greg k-h