linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFxCKgTrh1gS-cMyhBa0QoLW2DL2+DYxOAcA-Bd15H15vg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:10:58 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org>,
        "linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl> wrote:
>
> Thus, if it's indeed binutils, you'll see the breakage as soon as Fedora
> recovers from the freeze.

So quite frankly, I don't want to make our kernel sources worse due to
broken shit tools getting something wrong that we shouldn't even care
about.

How about this stupid patch? It weakens modversions, but that may be
ok for Debian, and a better alternative than just saying "we don't
support it at all".

            Linus

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