From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755623Ab0DFNAj (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:00:39 -0400 Received: from cpsmtpm-eml104.kpnxchange.com ([195.121.3.8]:62226 "EHLO CPSMTPM-EML104.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755124Ab0DFNAe (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:00:34 -0400 From: Frans Pop To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: 2.6.34-rc3: Can't insmod after make, because versions now differ?! Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:00:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20100405053628.GA12217@elf.ucw.cz> <201004051724.26225.elendil@planet.nl> <20100406070641.GA19231@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> In-Reply-To: <20100406070641.GA19231@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201004061500.32569.elendil@planet.nl> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Apr 2010 13:00:32.0903 (UTC) FILETIME=[24422170:01CAD589] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 06 April 2010, Pavel Machek wrote: > Yes, but... should module version checking be fixed so that it does > not interfere like that? I don't think so. Essentially you are getting what you configured: an extremely fine-grained kernel version. It's up to you to decide whether the benefits of that outweigh the limitations it brings. Stripping parts of the kernel version for module compatibility checks could interfere with suffixes explicitly added by distros to specify ABI compatibility. Cheers, FJP