From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: module compiler version check still needed?
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:19:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608141119.46259.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155546377.2886.190.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Monday 14 August 2006 11:06, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 06:48 +0200, Andi Kleen 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?
>
> is there any harm in doing this check?
Yes, it can cause lots of trouble when you try to compile external
modules on a different system with different compiler than on the
system where the kernel was compiled.
e.g. you upgrade a distribution kernel but now you can compile
modules for it because the new rpm was compiled with a newer
compiler.
Happens to me regularly.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-14 9:20 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
2006-08-14 9:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-14 9:19 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-08-14 22:11 ` Adrian Bunk
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