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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:03:12 -0800
From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: no version magic, tainting kernel.
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:43:57PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Er, if vermagic.o needed to change, then your module build was broken
> already and wouldn't have worked against the precompiled kernel. That's 

	If you've precompiled the kernel, you have a full kernel built
tree.  If you haven't, then vermagic.o isn't there.  Plus, modversions
requires the objects according to kai.
	In 2.4, a "make config" and "make dep" pretty much does what is
needed.  The kernel is ready to be used by external modules.

Joel

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