Re: [PATCH v6 4/5] modpost: Produce extended MODVERSIONS information

[Luis Chamberlain]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 11:18:59PM +0000, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> Generate both the existing modversions format and the new extended one
> when running modpost. Presence of this metadata in the final .ko is
> guarded by CONFIG_EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS.
> 
> We no longer generate an error on long symbols in modpost if
> CONFIG_EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS is set, as they can now be appropriately
> encoded in the extended section. These symbols will be skipped in the
> previous encoding. An error will still be generated if
> CONFIG_EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS is not set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@xxxxxxxxxx>

If nothing is selecting EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS then this is dead code and
should not be submitted unless we have a user, if that's the case then
this series should be folded into Sami's.

  Luis