Re: corrupt modversions.h built in 2.2.13

Martin Dalecki (dalecki@cs.net.pl)
Sat, 23 Oct 1999 15:31:47 +0200

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Olaf Titz wrote:
>
> > My favorite workaround is to remove CONFIG_MODVERSIONS as a supported
> > feature. If I thought Linus would accept such a patch, I would write
> > it this weekend.
>
> CONFIG_MODVERSIONS as currently implemented is ugly as hell but it is
> an _absolutely necessary_ feature at least if you have externally
> compiled modules.

Wrong. As you can see it's introducing more problems that it actually
solves.

> It would have spared me (and surely the developers of ALSA, ftape,
> lm-sensors, etc. too) a pile of bug reports if MODVERSIONS were
> mandatory. Cheap shot at "forgot to make dep":

Wrong the read the doc's for ftape. The statement there says:

"Don't bother me with versioned modules please".

--Marcin

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