linux-kernel - Re: LOCALVERSION_AUTO considered harmful

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Date:	Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:51:37 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	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 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.
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