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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: module compiler version check still needed?
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:45:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608140745.14435.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060814053831.GA23871@mars.ravnborg.org>

On Monday 14 August 2006 07:38, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:59:49AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>  > 
> > > Will we remember to add the check back in when we introduce new
> > > dependencies on compiler versions?
> > 
> > If something breaks it be readded. I see it only as a special
> > hack for some extraordinary, and hopefully these problems won't happen again.
> What we should add should be some kind of cabability mask.

It would be probably overkill.

> There is no need to require that modules are built with exactly the same
> compiler as the kernel when it is only a very few compiler versions that
> causes layout/ABI differences.

On i386/x86-64 that's not the case anymore as far as I know.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-14  5:45 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
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 [this message]
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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