From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:51:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100412185136.GA13171@x200> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100411164701.GA7558@elf.ucw.cz>
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 06:47:01PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> @@ -99,6 +98,11 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
> appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
> set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
>
> + Unfortunately, such finegrained versioning will mean that you will
> + not be able to use modules for development; even "make modules"
> + will change module versions, making recompiled modules impossible
> + to insert into old kernel.
That's conditional BS.
Turn off CONFIG_MODVERSIONS already.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-11 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-11 16:47 LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful Pavel Machek
2010-04-12 18:51 ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2010-04-11 18:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-04-11 20:14 ` Pavel Machek
2010-04-11 22:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-04-12 1:20 ` rdunlap
2010-04-12 2:56 ` rdunlap
2010-04-12 3:49 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-04-12 12:48 ` Theodore Tso
2010-04-12 13:14 ` Pavel Machek
2010-04-12 17:03 ` Linus Torvalds
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