Hi! After Linus' revert of Arnd's modversions patch, it looks like we're back to wanting asm-prototypes.h at least in the short term. Things are much better than before -- instead of failing to load modules there's just a scary warning, but I still believe that no scary warning is better :) Users will be stressed, waste their time looking for answer, etc -- and the short-term fix is quite well researched and tested. It's for x86 only, but with arm ppc arm64 already dealt with, that handles about 99.9% of machines. So I think it'd be good if you could apply this -- ideally for 4.9, if not then at least 4.10. There _is_ a modification since the last posted version: Ben Hutchings pointed out that I missed one 486-only symbol. Not surprising no one found this during testing... The diff from v2 is: +#ifndef CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG64 +extern void cmpxchg8b_emu(void); +#endif Note that this is already carried by Debian (Ben Hutchings' tree), so a mainline fix for 4.9 would matter only for other distributions, not sure which if any want to release with 4.9. Meow! -- u-boot problems can be solved with the help of your old SCSI manuals, the parts that deal with goat termination. You need a black-handled knife, and an appropriate set of candles (number and color matters). Or was it a silver-handled knife? Crap, need to look that up. -- 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
