Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Dec 1997 11:36:55 -0600 | From | Michael Elizabeth Chastain <> | Subject | Re: Module versioning (was: Re: OFFTOPIC: binary modules, bad idea!) |
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Hello kernel hackers,
Dominik Kubla asks,
> Hmm, for ELF-based systems, one could try to use ELF symbol versioning > instead of a hash-code and since that is already part of the current > binutils it should not be a problem. The question however is if that > is sufficient for our purposes? Could someone with more understanding > how module versioning works comment on this?
Module symbols are not resolved by binutils -- they are resolved by insmod, using symbol names and values supplied by sys_init_module.
Michael Chastain <mailto:mec@shout.net> "love without fear"
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