On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:43:44PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > On 10/19/2009 09:02 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) > > Even non-GPL modules can normally be rebuilt as far as the module format is > concerned, there's usually an object file blob that gets compiled into a > module on install or something, like the Nvidia graphics driver. If > anyone's providing binary-only fully built modules (which would be > inherently tied to one exact kernel version and one configuration) they > really need to have their head examined.. Welcome to embedded Linux :) -- 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
