From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
To: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Cc: "Michael Ellerman" <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
"Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com>,
"Christophe Leroy" <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] modules: Support extended MODVERSIONS info
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 23:00:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241024230008.GA1382412@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241023-extended-modversions-v7-1-339787b43373@google.com>
On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 02:31:28AM +0000, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> Adds a new format for MODVERSIONS which stores each field in a separate
> ELF section. This initially adds support for variable length names, but
> could later be used to add additional fields to MODVERSIONS in a
> backwards compatible way if needed. Any new fields will be ignored by
> old user tooling, unlike the current format where user tooling cannot
> tolerate adjustments to the format (for example making the name field
> longer).
>
> Since PPC munges its version records to strip leading dots, we reproduce
> the munging for the new format. Other architectures do not appear to
> have architecture-specific usage of this information.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Sami
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-24 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-23 2:31 [PATCH v7 0/3] Extended MODVERSIONS Support Matthew Maurer
2024-10-23 2:31 ` [PATCH v7 1/3] modules: Support extended MODVERSIONS info Matthew Maurer
2024-10-24 23:00 ` Sami Tolvanen [this message]
2024-10-25 11:14 ` Michael Ellerman
2024-10-25 15:17 ` Matthew Maurer
2024-10-30 5:35 ` Michael Ellerman
2024-10-23 2:31 ` [PATCH v7 2/3] modpost: Produce extended MODVERSIONS information Matthew Maurer
2024-10-24 23:01 ` Sami Tolvanen
2024-10-23 2:31 ` [PATCH v7 3/3] rust: Use gendwarfksyms + extended modversions for CONFIG_MODVERSIONS Matthew Maurer
2024-10-24 23:06 ` Sami Tolvanen
2024-10-24 23:07 ` [PATCH v7 0/3] Extended MODVERSIONS Support Sami Tolvanen
2024-10-25 4:53 ` Luis Chamberlain
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