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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:45:29 -0800
From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
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> Thanks for pointing this out, Andi. I've been just now writing more or 
> less the same thing; ditching that and will reuse your patch instead.
> 
> Why was the more aggresive version (6cfb521ac0d5b) merged into Linus' tree 
> instead of that?

Greg prefered using modversions, and in the end simplicity won 
out for 4.15

-Andi