Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:14:26 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful |
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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... Pavel
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