Hi, I noticed that CONFIG_MODVERSIONS was not enabled in Fedora. I do not know the history and would be curious to know if someone knew. Otherwise, I would like to propose enabling it. Traditionally this option helps 3rd party drivers update to newer kernel versions if the symbol checksums match from the symbol list the driver needs in the kernel. Fedora normally is not interested in 3rd party drivers. I am not going to ask Fedora to start being interested either. :-) My reason for enabling this is really to help with RHEL technology. RHEL does support 3rd party drivers for business reasons. Having better support in Fedora for 3rd party drivers helps us iron out some of our technology in this area. As a bonus, it does help make sure existing Fedora 3rd party drivers don't accidentally get loaded with the wrong kernel version. This gets blocked at load time and can help prevent various panics. Though Fedora traditionally closes such bugs anyway. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/config-generic b/config-generic index 7444895..e0e9387 100644 --- a/config-generic +++ b/config-generic @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y # CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_LOAD is not set # -- MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD is controlled by config-debug/nodebug -# CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set +CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y # CONFIG_MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL is not set CONFIG_PCI=y _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kernel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
