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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kbuild 2.5 is ready for inclusion in the 2.5 kernel
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 16:21:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CD15996.8EB1699F@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E173HX6-00041D-00@the-village.bc.nu> <3CD13FF3.5020406@evision-ventures.com>

Martin Dalecki wrote:
> 
> Uz.ytkownik Alan Cox napisa?:
> >>>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?
> >
> >
> > Modversions solves a huge number of problems very very well. The fact that
> > you don't like it doesn't change the reality of the situation.
> 
> Could you name *ONE* please? Maybe the following?

It fixes the problem where support people and people who get the
bugreports have
to stare at "impossible" problems for hours and hours to find out that
someone
has insmod'ed a module for a different kernel (be it an athlon module in
a i686 kernel
or someone using perl to replace the built-in kernel version in the .o
file)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-02 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-01 14:23 kbuild 2.5 is ready for inclusion in the 2.5 kernel Keith Owens
2002-05-02 15:17 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-02 10:38   ` tomas szepe
2002-05-02 12:21     ` Keith Owens
2002-05-02 12:49       ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-02 14:26         ` Alan Cox
2002-05-02 13:32           ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-02 14:54             ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-05-02 15:17             ` Alan Cox
2002-05-05  9:43               ` Mike Fedyk
2002-05-05 10:16                 ` Keith Owens
2002-05-02 15:21             ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2002-05-02 15:59               ` Richard Gooch
2002-05-02 15:36                 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-02 17:15                   ` Alan Cox
2002-05-02 16:30                     ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-02 18:20                       ` Alan Cox
2002-05-02 17:25                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-05-02 16:53                     ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-02 17:48                       ` David S. Miller
2002-05-02 17:42                         ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-02 19:11                           ` Alan Cox
2002-05-02 18:22                             ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-02 18:49                             ` David S. Miller
2002-05-02 18:33                       ` Alan Cox
2002-05-02 14:24       ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-05-02 15:18         ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-02 15:40           ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-05-02 23:40             ` Keith Owens
2002-05-02 23:25               ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-03 14:48               ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-05-03 15:45                 ` Keith Owens
2002-05-02 15:19         ` Alan Cox
2002-05-02 22:57           ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-03  8:33             ` Vikram
2002-05-03 12:07               ` Keith Owens
2002-05-18  1:14                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-18  1:33                   ` Dave Jones
2002-05-18  3:06                     ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-05-18 12:28                     ` [PATCH] move jiffies from sched.h to it's own jiffies.h Tim Schmielau
2002-05-19 22:33                       ` Tim Schmielau
2002-05-20  2:32                       ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-18  2:12                   ` kbuild 2.5 is ready for inclusion in the 2.5 kernel Gerhard Mack
2002-05-18  2:13                   ` Keith Owens
2002-05-18  2:30                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-20  2:38                     ` Miles Bader
2002-05-02 21:34       ` tomas szepe
2002-05-02 21:42         ` Dave Jones
2002-05-03  1:19           ` John Covici
2002-05-03  1:33             ` Keith Owens
2002-05-03  1:39               ` tomas szepe
2002-05-03  2:31             ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-03  3:21               ` Davide Libenzi
2002-05-02 21:42         ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-02 23:25           ` tomas szepe
2002-05-03 21:05           ` Mark H. Wood
2002-05-04 13:58             ` Kurt Wall
2002-05-06  1:54             ` Mike Fedyk
2002-05-02 22:54 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-03  9:00   ` Keith Owens
2002-05-03  4:17 ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-05-03  5:02   ` Keith Owens
2002-05-03  6:32     ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-05-03 10:06     ` Gerd Knorr
2002-05-03 10:42       ` Keith Owens
2002-05-03 12:05         ` Gerd Knorr
2002-05-03 13:31           ` Keith Owens
2002-05-04  6:44         ` Paul Mackerras
2002-05-04  8:03           ` Paul Mackerras
2002-05-06  0:42             ` Mike Fedyk
2002-05-06  4:07               ` Paul Mackerras
2002-05-04  9:03           ` Keith Owens
2002-05-04  9:38             ` Russell King
2002-05-04 10:33             ` Paul Mackerras
2002-05-04 11:49               ` Keith Owens
2002-05-06  8:40                 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-05-07  4:14                   ` Keith Owens
2002-05-04 15:30               ` Richard Gooch
2002-05-05 17:23 ` Urban Widmark
2002-05-05 23:36   ` Keith Owens
2002-05-06 11:33     ` Urban Widmark
2002-05-06 23:54       ` Keith Owens
2002-05-06 10:54 ` Alex Riesen
2002-05-08  2:54   ` Keith Owens
2002-05-08 17:25     ` Alex Riesen
2002-05-09  0:10       ` Keith Owens
2002-05-09  0:55         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-05-09  1:44           ` Keith Owens
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-05 16:42 Dan Kegel
2002-05-05 23:44 ` Keith Owens
2002-05-06  0:02   ` Dan Kegel
2002-05-06  0:40     ` Keith Owens
2002-05-06 15:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-06 15:33   ` Tomas Szepe
     [not found] <cs.lists.linux-kernel/18740.1020729269@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au>
2002-05-07 23:48 ` Ion Badulescu
2002-05-08  0:10   ` Keith Owens
2002-05-08  0:37     ` Alan Cox
2002-05-08  0:34       ` Keith Owens

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