From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: does CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL depend on MODULE_VERSION?
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:56:19 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0906280752060.7674@localhost> (raw)
from the help text for CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL:
"Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
others sometimes change the module source without updating
the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N."
that first sentence suggests that calculating a module's
"srcversion" value depends on whether you've provided a MODULE_VERSION
value, but that doesn't seem to be the case based on a test i just
made. and it seems to disagree with the later sentence that this
CONFIG option will generate a srcversion value for "all" modules
regardless.
clarification? it seems that first sentence is misleading, unless
i'm misreading it.
rday
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