Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932141AbYGUDEK (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:04:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759105AbYGUDD4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:03:56 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:43737 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753640AbYGUDDz (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:03:55 -0400 Message-Id: <20080721022823.896799736@suse.de> User-Agent: quilt/0.46_cvs20080326-18 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:28:23 +0200 From: Andreas Gruenbacher To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg Subject: [genksyms patch 0/4] Checksum tracking and tweaking Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1039 Lines: 26 Sam and all, we are having two kinds of problems with genksyms today: fake checksum changes without actual ABI changes, and changes which we would rather like to ignore (such as an additional field at the end of a structure that modules are not supposed to touch, for example). I have thought about ways to improve genksyms and compute checksums differently to avoid those problems, but in the end I don't see a fundamentally better way. So here are some genksyms patches for at least making the checksums more easily manageable, if we cannot fully fix them. In addition to the bugfixes (the first two patches), this allows genksyms to track checksum changes and report why a checksum changed (third patch), and to selectively ignore changes (fourth patch). Any thoughts? Thanks, Andreas -- 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/