On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:32:51 am Carmelo Amoroso wrote: > 2009/10/19 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>: > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 01:45:20PM +0200, Carmelo Amoroso wrote: > >> Just a few other notes. The current implementation I did based on SysV > >> has a drawback that is not backward compatible, so you cannot use old > >> modules with a kernel with the option enabled due to changes on struct > >> kernel_symbol. > > > > Why would this be a problem? Whenever making a kernel config change, > > you should be able to rebuild everything, as lots of other configuration > > options are that way. > > This is not always true... there could be cases in which you cannot > recompile old modules > (e.g vendors that provide non GPL modules) And breaking them is a feature. I do not go out of my way to avoid breaking out-of-tree modules; it's certainly more important to have simple maintainable code. You guys figure out what the best speed/size tradeoff is, and send me the patch for review. Thanks! Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
