Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Aug 1999 18:10:32 +0200 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: modutils check for SMP |
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On Sat, Aug 28, 1999 at 03:23:50PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > There is CONFIG_MODVERSIONS which should prevent any module incompatibiliti= > > es. > > It does
Sure.
> So basically you are saying "It exists, but I dont want to use it, however > I'd like to whine anyway". > > Modversions is designed to catch all potential compatiblity cases across > kernel rebuilds, not just SMP. If you reconfigure/recompile and structs change > size it will do its job.
I found modules not loading in spite of being well compatible with the kernel. Maybe the mechanism works better, now, I didn't check. Do they?
That's why I'd like SMP being stored in the kernel version for the modules and for the kernel, just like an extraversion. Easy and functional, also without MODVERSIONS.
Regards, -- Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Wuppertal, FRG PGP2 key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE GmbH, Nürnberg, FRG SCSI drivers: tmscsim(DC390), DC395 [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |