From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 09:52:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 09:52:12 -0400 Received: from [195.63.194.11] ([195.63.194.11]:57100 "EHLO mail.stock-world.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 09:52:12 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD135D4.5060506@evision-ventures.com> Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 14:49:24 +0200 From: Martin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020419 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Keith Owens CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kbuild 2.5 is ready for inclusion in the 2.5 kernel In-Reply-To: <28926.1020342106@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Uz.ytkownik Keith Owens napisa?: > kbuild 2.5 deliberately does not support modversions, you can turn it > on but it does nothing. The original implementation of modversions > does not fit with the way that people build kernels now (apply patches, > change configs, rebuild without make mrproper). To do modversions > right needs a new version of modutils as well, there is no chance of > that work being started until kbuild 2.5 is in the kernel. How many years was it that I was telling that symbol versioning is a silly concept not solving any single problem and the implementation is to say the least ugly?