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The return of modversions

The return of modversions

Posted Jan 30, 2003 18:45 UTC (Thu) by Ross (guest, #4065)
Parent article: The return of modversions

Does this means that versioned modules and non-versioned modules will be identical except for the table of symbol versions?

If so, this is going to be really nice. People won't be forced to use a kernel compiled with modversions just because they are using a binary-only module with symbol versions. Nor will distribution kernels be unable to load unversioned modules.

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The return of modversions

Posted Jan 31, 2003 0:55 UTC (Fri) by TheOneKEA (guest, #615) [Link]

I hope is the way it's implemented. That way you can add a kernel config option (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS_ALLOW_IGNORE) that will let you run insmod with, say, the --strip-modversions option, so that versioned modules could be used with unversioned kernels.

LYS, it would make one of nVidia's headaches go away, and it would make distro building much easier.


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