Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: module compiler version check still needed? | Date | Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:45:14 +0200 |
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On Monday 14 August 2006 07:38, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:59:49AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > Will we remember to add the check back in when we introduce new > > > dependencies on compiler versions? > > > > If something breaks it be readded. I see it only as a special > > hack for some extraordinary, and hopefully these problems won't happen again. > What we should add should be some kind of cabability mask.
It would be probably overkill.
> There is no need to require that modules are built with exactly the same > compiler as the kernel when it is only a very few compiler versions that > causes layout/ABI differences.
On i386/x86-64 that's not the case anymore as far as I know.
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