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On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 02:48:32PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Not sure what would be the best way to do it...  I don't mind breaking
> the out-of-tree modules, whatever their license is; what I would rather
> avoid is _quiet_ breaking of such.

Any out of tree module running against an upstream kernel will need
a recompile for a new version anyway.  So I would not worry about it
at all.