On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 09:44 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> 13.07.09 10:11 >>> > >Jan Beulich napsal(a): > >> Actually I meanwhile think that module-init-tools can easily detect the changed > >> layout without any further kernel side adjustments: Since it is known that a > >> CRC always is a 32-bit value, simply checking whether the so-far-used 64-bit > >> value has more than 32 significant bits should suffice: If so, the new layout > >> is being used (with the symbol name starting at offset 4), else the old one is > >> in effect (name at offset 8). This ought to be a pretty trivial change to that > >> code. > > > >But old module-init-tools will continue reading garbage in this case. Most of the distros can fix that with a dependency on the kernel package in the absolute worst case, not that I love that idea, but it happens. I assume for now we are going with detecting the two possibilities because it doesn't really hurt in any case to have this support. Jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
