Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:24:10 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful |
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On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sun 2010-04-11 20:58:58, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > 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... > > I _had_ it off > > # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set > > It seems some checking survives CONFIG_MODVERSIONS unset and that > checking is strict enough to refuse module load after one "make > modules" with LOCALVERSION_AUTO on...
So instead of fixing the CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=n case you go the easy way of killing LOCALVERSION_AUTO ? Brilliant.
Thanks,
tglx | |