Re: [RFC] [patch] drm core internal versioning..

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 03:31:26AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> I don't want to re-implement kernel modversions which is what we are close
> to doing

Then why not just rely on the modversion code in the kernel tree to do
this?  As you say:

> you can't insmod a module built against a different kernel
> anyways so it doesn't matter, kernel version, preempt, smp, compiler are
> all checked on insmod in 2.6 if they don't match it doesn't load it is not
> possible to distrib a binarry kernel independent module..

Which is a pretty good reason not to try to implement your own
versioning system, right?

> without at least a portable stub source loader...

Are you thinking that someone will try to do this?  If so, they deserve
what they get :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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