Kiran Kumar Immidi wrote:
>>1) What is it about this particular kernel that requires modversion.h >>included? > > It was compiled with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS enabled.
I have several different kernels that have CONFIG_MODVERSIONS enabled, but only this one requires me to include modversions.h in every file.
>>2) Is there any characteristic of any of the kernel header or source
>>files that I can scan for to allow me to know in advance whether I need
>>modversions.h?
>
> As stated above, you can check in the config of that particular kernel.
That's not going to work, because CONFIG_MODVERSIONS does not uniquely explain the behavior.
> Also, you can check symbols in /proc/ksyms, they should have a _Rxxxxxx > suffix.
That only works if I'm running the kernel I'm compiling for. If I do a cross-compile, then this won't work.
Also, it turns out that Fedora Core 2 and Core 3 are both missing /proc/kallsyms, so that wouldn't work at all.
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