Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752071Ab0DLNOX (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:14:23 -0400 Received: from ksp.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.206]:45824 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750888Ab0DLNOW (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:14:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:14:05 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Alexey Dobriyan , kernel list , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful Message-ID: <20100412131405.GB22773@ucw.cz> References: <20100411164701.GA7558@elf.ucw.cz> <20100412185136.GA13171@x200> <20100411201426.GC25294@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1147 Lines: 33 Hi! > > > > 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. In previous discussion, I was told that there's no bug to fix, that everything works as intended. I believe current behaiour is stupid, and I'd prefer *some* fix. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/