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* [genksyms patch 0/4] Checksum tracking and tweaking
@ 2008-07-21  2:28 Andreas Gruenbacher
  2008-07-21  2:28 ` [genksyms patch 1/4] parser: fix the __attribute__ rule Andreas Gruenbacher
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From: Andreas Gruenbacher @ 2008-07-21  2:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, Sam Ravnborg

Sam and all,

we are having two kinds of problems with genksyms today: fake checksum changes
without actual ABI changes, and changes which we would rather like to ignore
(such as an additional field at the end of a structure that modules are not
supposed to touch, for example).

I have thought about ways to improve genksyms and compute checksums differently
to avoid those problems, but in the end I don't see a fundamentally better way.
So here are some genksyms patches for at least making the checksums more easily
manageable, if we cannot fully fix them.

In addition to the bugfixes (the first two patches), this allows genksyms to track
checksum changes and report why a checksum changed (third patch), and to
selectively ignore changes (fourth patch).

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Andreas


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2008-07-21  2:28 [genksyms patch 0/4] Checksum tracking and tweaking Andreas Gruenbacher
2008-07-21  2:28 ` [genksyms patch 1/4] parser: fix the __attribute__ rule Andreas Gruenbacher
2008-07-30 20:43   ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-07-30 22:03     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2008-07-31 21:17       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-07-21  2:28 ` [genksyms patch 2/4] Include extern information in dumps Andreas Gruenbacher
2008-07-31 21:18   ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-07-21  2:28 ` [genksyms patch 3/4] Track symbol checksum changes Andreas Gruenbacher
2008-09-03  5:02   ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-03  8:13     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2008-07-21  2:28 ` [genksyms patch 4/4] Allow to ignore " Andreas Gruenbacher

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