From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@bergmann-dalldorf.de>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module alias and device table support.
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 11:36:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200302011055.LAA29753@post.webmailer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030201073007$3e7f@gated-at.bofh.it
Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> Alright. I think we're heading towards a generic postprocessor here, which
> takes the .o, extracts information as necessary and generates some .c file
> which contains e.g. checksums for the unresolved symbols (when MODVERSIONS
> is selected), a section to record which modules we depend on, an alias
> section etc. This .c is then compiled and linked into the final .ko
...
> Yup, I think modversions should have a little time to settle first.
> There's really only one tricky point with modversions (and the other stuff
> above), i.e. we need a complete list of all modules. With people
> playing tricks with "make SUBDIRS=..." that needs some care to not go
> accidentally wrong.
Worse that "make SUBDIRS=...", what do you think can be done about third
party modules? After all, I thought they are what modversions are about.
I don't see how you can reliably find the list of required modules when
you build a module outside of the kernel tree.
Arnd <><
next parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-01 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20030201073007$3e7f@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-02-01 10:36 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2003-02-04 17:45 [PATCH] Module alias and device table support Adam J. Richter
2003-02-05 0:17 ` Rusty Russell
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2003-02-04 17:25 Adam J. Richter
2003-01-31 0:09 Rusty Russell
2003-01-31 6:23 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-01-31 9:41 ` Horst von Brand
2003-01-31 15:42 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-01-31 22:33 ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-01 0:48 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-02-01 1:22 ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-01 2:59 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-02-01 10:31 ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-01 3:49 ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-01 7:20 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-02-01 23:02 ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-03 0:52 ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-03 2:49 ` John Levon
2003-02-03 10:34 ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-04 9:56 ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-05 0:00 ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-03 8:31 ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-03 10:52 ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-04 8:05 ` Horst von Brand
2003-02-04 8:51 ` Rusty Russell
2003-02-04 14:49 ` Roman Zippel
2003-02-03 13:40 ` Roman Zippel
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