linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts/mod/modpost: For CentOS 7/old binutils compatibility

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Message-ID: <20250807-elastic-transparent-kingfisher-8f7ada@l-nschier-aarch64>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 12:51:59 +0200
From: Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>
To: Haoran lee <470658536@...com>
Cc: masahiroy@...nel.org, nathan@...nel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/mod/modpost: For CentOS 7/old binutils
 compatibility

On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 12:19:46AM +0800, Haoran lee wrote:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haoran Lee <470658536@...com>
> ---

Please note that empty commit descriptions will not be accepted.


>  scripts/mod/modpost.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> index 5ca7c268294e..216647e2f301 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,32 @@
>  
>  #define MODULE_NS_PREFIX "module:"
>  
> +/* CentOS 7 / old binutils compatibility */

Since v6.16-rc1 the minimum binutils version has been lifted to 
binutils-2.30 [1].

Which binutils version do you have at CentOS 7 ?

Kind regards,
Nicolas


[1]: https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/118c40b7b50340bf7ff7e0adee8e3