Subject: Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
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Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
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From: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:40:01 -0500
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On 2016-11-30 4:57 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 22:42 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
>> My current theory is that setting MODVERSIONS, somehow, hides the ERROR spew.
>> Because that could explain your bisect. Linus' commit turns of MODVERSIONS the
>> hard way. And, naturally, this theory fails if your .configs never had
>> MODVERSIONS set in the first place.

My config had MODVERSIONS set, yes.

> This theory appears to be correct!
>
> It's getting late here so I won't be spending much time on this anymore.
> Perhaps you fancy looking into all this now. And, maybe, a new day will bring
> me the courage needed to dive into this.

Done for the day here too, will continue prodding tomorrow.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod@redhat.com