Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752827Ab0DKS7B (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:59:01 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f46.google.com ([74.125.82.46]:40009 "EHLO mail-ww0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752747Ab0DKS67 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:58:59 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=fg18QK2G/ogZTV5bGtC9q28H96v/MDZMeorBA2dk1B96+zIQLl42QT6NltASRFubha YzlgRbHkWIKXNtUJMy36ZkiJoJBF7JlKUoWbLhzDip1z2y2PDSMAQcGTxF1EJM6ZqPAY Olh7Mhn68FEbikCQ5e4P+Bul2/CaRNBbPPCfo= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100412185136.GA13171@x200> References: <20100411164701.GA7558@elf.ucw.cz> <20100412185136.GA13171@x200> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:58:58 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 346e3ec56b442aaa Message-ID: Subject: Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: Pavel Machek , kernel list , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1336 Lines: 33 On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 20:51, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > 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. Yeah, I disabled it ages ago. Even then (before git, probably even before bitkeeper) I had hard times inserting modules... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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/