RE: SMP Extraversion

nathan.zook@amd.com
Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:01:06 -0500

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This seems somewhat related to one of my peeves, namely that a newbie
recompiling the kernel can wipe out his modules directory WAY to easily.
(Yes, it happened to me a few times before I figured out what was wrong.) A
(default?) option to generate extraversion-type information in order to
prevent overwriting previous results would avoid this. Kernel hackers would
turn it off almost as a matter of course, but someone wanting to rebuild the
kernel with the latest gcc might find this a lifesaver.

Nathan

> attached is a patch which does append the string "-SMP" to the kernel
> version, if the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_SMP.
>
> For slight changes, the MODVERSION mechanism is best suited.

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