Re: Odd build breakage in 4.9-rc7

[Paul Bolle]

On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 22:42 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> My current theory is that setting MODVERSIONS, somehow, hides the ERROR spew.
> Because that could explain your bisect. Linus' commit turns of MODVERSIONS the
> hard way. And, naturally, this theory fails if your .configs never had
> MODVERSIONS set in the first place.

This theory appears to be correct!

It's getting late here so I won't be spending much time on this anymore.
Perhaps you fancy looking into all this now. And, maybe, a new day will bring
me the courage needed to dive into this.

Thanks,


Paul Bolle