Re: [PATCH] PREEMPT_RT vermagic

From: Tom Rini
Date: Wed Aug 31 2005 - 10:20:24 EST


On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:29:44AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:20:17AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Ingo,
> > > This patch adds a vermagic hook so PREEMPT_RT modules can be
> > > distinguished from PREEMPT_DESKTOP modules.
> >
> > vermagic is very crude and there are zillions of other details and
> > .config flags that might make a module incompatible. You can use
> > CONFIG_MODVERSIONS to get a stronger protection that vermagic, but
> > that's far from perfect too. The right solution is the module signing
> > framework in Fedora. Until that gets merged upstream just dont mix
> > incompatible modules, and keep things tightly packaged.
>
> MODVERSIONS won't get the PREEMPT_RT vs PREEMPT_DESKTOP case right
> without this, unless I'm missing something.

I'm missing something I see.

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Tom Rini
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