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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:58:58 +0200 From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Subject: Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 20:51, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 06:47:01PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: >> @@ -99,6 +98,11 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO >> appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value >> set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION. >> >> + Unfortunately, such finegrained versioning will mean that you will >> + not be able to use modules for development; even "make modules" >> + will change module versions, making recompiled modules impossible >> + to insert into old kernel. > > That's conditional BS. > Turn off CONFIG_MODVERSIONS already. Yeah, I disabled it ages ago. Even then (before git, probably even before bitkeeper) I had hard times inserting modules... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- 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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