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diff --git a/net/batman-adv/version.c b/net/batman-adv/version.c
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+#include <generated/utsrelease.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+
+/* WARNING userspace tools like batctl were relying on
+ * /sys/module/batman_adv/version to check if the module was loaded. If it
+ * isn't present, they usually error out before finishing setup of the batadv
+ * interface. It should be kept until it is unlikely that there are active
+ * installations of these "broken" versions of these tools with recent kernels.
+ */
+MODULE_VERSION(UTS_RELEASE);