Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755693AbXFSOky (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:40:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752036AbXFSOkc (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:40:32 -0400 Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.30]:58092 "EHLO smtp4-g19.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755945AbXFSOka (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:40:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4677EACF.2000202@free.fr> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:40:15 +0200 From: John Sigler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061108 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dumping the checksums in a module References: <4677C539.7020203@free.fr> <1182259085.3014.5.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <1182259085.3014.5.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1142 Lines: 31 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 13:59 +0200, John Sigler wrote: > >> As far as I understand (which is not very far), if I define >> CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, > > just don't enable modversions.. it doesn't provide you any real safety > at all..... and it makes your build a LOT slower. I'm confused. What is the consensus on MODVERSIONS around here? How many people share your views? I was under the impression MODVERSIONS was a good thing(TM). If I don't enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, then I'll have to recompile my out-of-tree modules every time I upgrade the kernel, even if I'm just upgrading from 2.6.20.7 to 2.6.20.8, unless I force the insertion. I also have a few binary modules. If I force the insertion, I won't know they have become binary incompatible until they blow up later, or, worse, lead to silent corruption. Please correct any and all misconceptions. Regards. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/