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Message-Id: <201004061500.32569.elendil@planet.nl> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 15:00:31 +0200 From: Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl> To: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.34-rc3: Can't insmod after make, because versions now differ?! On Tuesday 06 April 2010, Pavel Machek wrote: > Yes, but... should module version checking be fixed so that it does > not interfere like that? I don't think so. Essentially you are getting what you configured: an extremely fine-grained kernel version. It's up to you to decide whether the benefits of that outweigh the limitations it brings. Stripping parts of the kernel version for module compatibility checks could interfere with suffixes explicitly added by distros to specify ABI compatibility. Cheers, FJP -- 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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