On Mon, 11 Sep 2023, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 09:04:14AM -0400, Matthew Howell wrote: > > So it seems like this might not be an issue for typical 'users' of the > > kernel, but may impact people who need to build and load 8250_exar > > manually for whatever reason, unless I am just building the module > > incorrectly somehow. > > Yes, Linux does not support building a module against one source > tree/configuration and attempting to load it into a different kernel at > all. You are lucky that this was the only thing that broke :) Ah, I had been under the impression that all that mattered for module compatibility was a matching .config and 'base' kernel version (ie, 6.5), so long as no backports or ABI changes had been made by the distro. I guess that is not actually the case though. > Thanks for the testing and letting us know that all is good with the > tree as-is. > > greg k-h >
