Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 20:51, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 06:47:01PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> @@ -99,6 +98,11 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
>> Â Â Â Â appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
>> Â Â Â Â set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
>>
>> + Â Â Â Unfortunately, such finegrained versioning will mean that you will
>> + Â Â Â not be able to use modules for development; even "make modules"
>> + Â Â Â will change module versions, making recompiled modules impossible
>> + Â Â Â to insert into old kernel.
>
> 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...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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