Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753343Ab0DLBUF (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:20:05 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([72.52.64.118]:55401 "HELO xenotime.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753244Ab0DLBUD (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:20:03 -0400 Message-ID: <37958.71.245.98.113.1271035201.squirrel@www.xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20100411164701.GA7558@elf.ucw.cz> <20100412185136.GA13171@x200> <20100411201426.GC25294@elf.ucw.cz> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful From: rdunlap@xenotime.net To: "Thomas Gleixner" Cc: "Pavel Machek" , "Geert Uytterhoeven" , "Alexey Dobriyan" , "kernel list" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Andrew Morton" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1704 Lines: 58 On Sun, April 11, 2010 3:24 pm, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Pavel Machek wrote: > > >> On Sun 2010-04-11 20:58:58, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> >>> 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... >>> >> >> I _had_ it off >> >> >> # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set >> >> >> It seems some checking survives CONFIG_MODVERSIONS unset and that >> checking is strict enough to refuse module load after one "make modules" >> with LOCALVERSION_AUTO on... > > So instead of fixing the CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=n case you go the easy way > of killing LOCALVERSION_AUTO ? Brilliant. so it works for you? how so, please? > Thanks, (saving bits) ~Randy -- 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/