Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:58:58 +0200 | Subject | Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 20:51, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 06:47:01PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: >> @@ -99,6 +98,11 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO >> appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value >> set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. >> >> + Unfortunately, such finegrained versioning will mean that you will >> + not be able to use modules for development; even "make modules" >> + will change module versions, making recompiled modules impossible >> + to insert into old kernel. > > That's conditional BS. > Turn off CONFIG_MODVERSIONS already.
Yeah, I disabled it ages ago. Even then (before git, probably even before bitkeeper) I had hard times inserting modules...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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