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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:14:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100411201426.GC25294@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g2v10f740e81004111158r4d4714a1w23b8521d5d595b29@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun 2010-04-11 20:58:58, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 20:51, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 06:47:01PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >> @@ -99,6 +98,11 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
> >>         appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
> >>         set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
> >>
> >> +       Unfortunately, such finegrained versioning will mean that you will
> >> +       not be able to use modules for development; even "make modules"
> >> +       will change module versions, making recompiled modules impossible
> >> +       to insert into old kernel.
> >
> > That's conditional BS.
> > Turn off CONFIG_MODVERSIONS already.
> 
> Yeah, I disabled it ages ago. Even then (before git, probably even
> before bitkeeper)
> I had hard times inserting modules...

I _had_ it off

 # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set

It seems some checking survives CONFIG_MODVERSIONS unset and that
checking is strict enough to refuse module load after one "make
modules" with LOCALVERSION_AUTO on...
									Pavel

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-11 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-11 16:47 LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful Pavel Machek
2010-04-12 18:51 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-04-11 18:58   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-04-11 20:14     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2010-04-11 22:24       ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-04-12  1:20         ` rdunlap
2010-04-12  2:56         ` rdunlap
2010-04-12  3:49           ` Randy Dunlap
2010-04-12 12:48           ` Theodore Tso
2010-04-12 13:14         ` Pavel Machek
2010-04-12 17:03           ` Linus Torvalds

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