linux-kernel - Modversions and long symbol names

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Message-ID: <20090120173636.GB24529@mediacenter>
Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:36:36 -0600
From:	Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@...il.com>
To:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Modversions and long symbol names

Currently when modversions is enabled the kernel will not load any
modules that depend on exported symbols with names longer than
64 - sizeof(unsigned long) characters.

This is because the struct modversion_info has the name member set to a
size of MODULE_NAME_LEN.  This is not the module name this is the symbol
name so I'm guessing this is a mistake or at least a misused constant.

Is it possible to increase this size to something more reasonable like
512 characters?

--
Shawn
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