Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752698Ab0DKRvc (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:51:32 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]:62803 "EHLO mail-bw0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752298Ab0DKRvb (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:51:31 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=mX+CxVL+6YIrhZ1bF3DPse0zUZ9EXRRibQsScOUDvwtTIWX0zRhGRsAalQXB5ZauDN 5RF6QhbBQH9psbHBeNANk6mAX3GU/CQLwcpGj3yWpaY0rM5INSGrBuTMUR5uFcd2R6ls mAgMAeHYvZNihBnTAZMqEhAr0GnWIXjlOe8XM= Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:51:37 +0300 From: Alexey Dobriyan To: Pavel Machek Cc: kernel list , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful Message-ID: <20100412185136.GA13171@x200> References: <20100411164701.GA7558@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100411164701.GA7558@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 776 Lines: 17 On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 06:47:01PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > @@ -99,6 +98,11 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO > appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value > set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. > > + Unfortunately, such finegrained versioning will mean that you will > + not be able to use modules for development; even "make modules" > + will change module versions, making recompiled modules impossible > + to insert into old kernel. That's conditional BS. Turn off CONFIG_MODVERSIONS already. -- 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/