From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 09:08:17 +0000 Message-ID: <1481533697.3883.24.camel@hellion.org.uk> References: <1480541581.16599.78.camel@decadent.org.uk> <20161201125545.406d092c@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1480559754.16599.92.camel@decadent.org.uk> <20161201143928.07a08348@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> <6e8cf20b-2d2f-ba1f-e02c-c757d5a25db7@suse.com> <20161209133308.0acbb57a@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1481296893.4509.135.camel@hellion.org.uk> <20161210021529.4a6e684f@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> <86vaus3eld.fsf@seketeli.org> <20161210124103.GD21421@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20161210124103.GD21421@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kbuild-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dodji Seketeli Cc: Nicholas Piggin , Michal Marek , Ben Hutchings , Linus Torvalds , Adam Borowski , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Debian kernel maintainers , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , Arnd Bergmann , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 13:41 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Now I don't work on a distro anymore, but I would think that something > like this would be really useful, pointing out exactly what changed is > very important for distro maintainers to determine what they want to do The .symvers produced by the current scheme aren't completely useless from this PoV, although they aren't ideal since you need both before an d after trees and if the changes are large or far reaching the diff can get a bit unwieldy, so better tooling which points directly to the actual relevant change would be no bad thing. Ian. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from benson.default.arb33.uk0.bigv.io ([46.43.0.16]:37273 "EHLO benson.default.arb33.uk0.bigv.io" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751266AbcLLJIu (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2016 04:08:50 -0500 Message-ID: <1481533697.3883.24.camel@hellion.org.uk> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm From: Ian Campbell Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 09:08:17 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20161210124103.GD21421@kroah.com> References: <1480541581.16599.78.camel@decadent.org.uk> <20161201125545.406d092c@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1480559754.16599.92.camel@decadent.org.uk> <20161201143928.07a08348@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> <6e8cf20b-2d2f-ba1f-e02c-c757d5a25db7@suse.com> <20161209133308.0acbb57a@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1481296893.4509.135.camel@hellion.org.uk> <20161210021529.4a6e684f@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> <86vaus3eld.fsf@seketeli.org> <20161210124103.GD21421@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Dodji Seketeli Cc: Nicholas Piggin , Michal Marek , Ben Hutchings , Linus Torvalds , Adam Borowski , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Debian kernel maintainers , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , Arnd Bergmann , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List Message-ID: <20161212090817.8wuJZGw2htV0UFGgv7UayMtjjbI6ppstAeocry3kKPc@z> On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 13:41 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Now I don't work on a distro anymore, but I would think that something > like this would be really useful, pointing out exactly what changed is > very important for distro maintainers to determine what they want to do The .symvers produced by the current scheme aren't completely useless from this PoV, although they aren't ideal since you need both before an d after trees and if the changes are large or far reaching the diff can get a bit unwieldy, so better tooling which points directly to the actual relevant change would be no bad thing. Ian.