Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

Ian Campbell
2016-12-12T09:08:50Z

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.