From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: module compiler version check still needed?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:27:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608132227.24719.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31645.1155445159@ocs10w.ocs.com.au>
On Sunday 13 August 2006 06:59, Keith Owens wrote:
> Andi Kleen (on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:48:36 +0200) wrote:
> >
> >Does anybody know of any reason why we would still need the compiler version
> >check during module loading? AFAIK on i386 it was only needed to handle
> >2.95 (which got dropped) and on x86-64 it was never needed. Is there
> >a need on any other architecture for it?
>
> IA64 still needs the check. include/asm-ia64/spinlock.h generates
> different calls to the out of line spinlock handler, depending on the
> version of gcc.
Thanks. But I guess it could be used to MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC for ia64 only then.
If nobody else complains I will do that.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-13 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-13 4:48 module compiler version check still needed? Andi Kleen
2006-08-13 4:59 ` Keith Owens
2006-08-13 20:27 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-08-13 22:04 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-13 22:14 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-08-14 4:59 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-14 5:38 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-08-14 5:45 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-14 9:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-14 9:19 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-14 22:11 ` Adrian Bunk
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