Re: Early crash (was: Re: module: show version information forbuilt-in modules in sysfs)

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 12:33:29PM -0800, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:59, Linux Kernel Mailing List
> <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/e94965ed5beb23c6fabf7ed31f625e66d7ff28de
> 
> >    module: show version information for built-in modules in sysfs
> >
> >    Currently only drivers that are built as modules have their versions
> >    shown in /sys/module/<module_name>/version, but this information might
> >    also be useful for built-in drivers as well. This especially important
> >    for drivers that do not define any parameters - such drivers, if
> >    built-in, are completely invisible from userspace.
> >
> >    This patch changes MODULE_VERSION() macro so that in case when we are
> >    compiling built-in module, version information is stored in a separate
> >    section. Kernel then uses this data to create 'version' sysfs attribute
> >    in the same fashion it creates attributes for module parameters.
> 
> This commit causes the crash below on m68k (ARAnyM).
> Reverting this commit and its dependency
> 3b90a5b292321b2acac3921f77046ae195aef53f
> ("module: fix linker error for MODULE_VERSION when !MODULE and CONFIG_SYSFS=n")
> makes it boot again.
> 

Hi Geert,

Does the follwing help by any chance?