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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:57:34 +1030 From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> To: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] module: make modversion_info contain a pointer, not an array. On Tuesday 10 February 2009 04:20:50 Shawn Bohrer wrote: > This also results in a taint flag of 3. So I'm thinking the regression > here is that somewhere between 2.6.25 (I know openSUSE 11 worked too) > and 2.6.27 the kernel stopped allowing modules to load if they didn't > build with modversion support and the kernel was built with > CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y. Before 2.6.26, the kernel ignored the vermagic field when CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y. I changed it to only ignore vermagic *if* there were CRCs. If you use modprobe --force, you should be able to load a non-modversions module into a modversions kernel. > > And anyway, what was the symbol name which is over 56 characters long which > > started this? > > Yeah, that is an interesting question isn't it? Let me just say that > namespaces and name mangling make it really easy to have names longer > than 56 characters. Yes, C++. This is one reason we don't support it. Hope that helps, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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