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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@bergmann-dalldorf.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Module alias and device table support. 
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
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Kai Germaschewski wrote:

> Alright. I think we're heading towards a generic postprocessor here, which
> takes the .o, extracts information as necessary and generates some .c file 
> which contains e.g. checksums for the unresolved symbols (when MODVERSIONS 
> is selected), a section to record which modules we depend on, an alias 
> section etc. This .c is then compiled and linked into the final .ko
...
> Yup, I think modversions should have a little time to settle first. 
> There's really only one tricky point with modversions (and the other stuff 
> above), i.e. we need a complete list of all modules. With people 
> playing tricks with "make SUBDIRS=..." that needs some care to not go 
> accidentally wrong.

Worse that "make SUBDIRS=...", what do you think can be done about third
party modules? After all, I thought they are what modversions are about.
I don't see how you can reliably find the list of required modules when
you build a module outside of the kernel tree.

        Arnd <><
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