6f864eb5cfd8315b8f9a29167263282fe4593f3a - batman-adv: drop batman-adv specific version

Fri, 15 May 2026 08:41:19 +0200

batman-adv: drop batman-adv specific versionBumping the version number on the first pull request after each mergewindow was deemed inappropriate for an in-tree component. The versionnumber carries little meaningful information in the context of the Linuxkernel release model, where stable and distribution might all carryslightly different patches (without any change to the batman-adv version).Instead, expose a UTS_RELEASE-based string to consumers of the netlink andethtool interfaces. To avoid recompilation for each (re)generate ofgenerated/utsrelease.h, init_utsname()->release is used in code which candynamically retrieve the version string. The MODULE_VERSION is moved to aseparate file because it doesn't support dynamic retrieval of the versionstring (but constant "at compile time" string) and it is required for the/sys/module/batman_adv/version. The latter is unfortunately still requiredby userspace tools.Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210203163302.13e8a2a7@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.comLink: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YnfjtpuAaH+Zkf9S@unrealLink: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y9faTA0rNSXg%2FsLD@nanopsychoSigned-off-by: Sven Eckelmann List of files: /linux/net/batman-adv/version.c

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6f864eb5cfd8315b8f9a29167263282fe4593f3a - batman-adv: drop batman-adv specific version