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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:04:41 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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To: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
CC: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
       Phillip Hellewell <phillip@hellewell.homeip.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 076/196] ecryptfs: remove version_str file from sysfs
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Michael Halcrow wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:54:21AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>> I could not find any userspace tools or documentation that used it
> 
> The version_str handle is only there as a potential convenience for
> users who need to figure out what their module can and cannot do. I
> mentioned it in an article in LJ last year. It does not need to be
> there for any tools to work right, and I do not think that anyone
> really cares about it at this point, so I have no problem with just
> ripping it out.

Cool, well ignore my objection then...

	Jeff


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