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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next prev parent 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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