On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 2:38 PM Luis Chamberlain wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 02:19:38PM -0800, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> > >
> > > > If booted against an old kernel, it will
> > > > behave as though there is no modversions information.
> > >
> > > Huh? This I don't get. If you have the new lib
On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 04:09:34PM -0800, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> > Thinking about this some more, if we're going down enabling a new
> > option, it seems to beg the question if the old *two* ksymtab sections
> > could just be folded into the a new one where the "gpl only" thing
> > becomes just on
On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 02:38:13PM -0800, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> The only thing left I think to test is the impact at runtime, and the
> only thing I can think of is first we use find_symbol() on resolve_symbol()
> which it took me a while to review and realize that this just uses a
> completel
> Thinking about this some more, if we're going down enabling a new
> option, it seems to beg the question if the old *two* ksymtab sections
> could just be folded into the a new one where the "gpl only" thing
> becomes just one "column" as you call it. Reasons I ask, it seems like
> we're duplicat
On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 02:19:38PM -0800, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> >
> > > If booted against an old kernel, it will
> > > behave as though there is no modversions information.
> >
> > Huh? This I don't get. If you have the new libkmod and boot
> > an old kernel, that should just not break becauase w
On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 10:27 PM Lucas De Marchi
wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 02:19:38PM -0800, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> >>
> >> > If booted against an old kernel, it will
> >> > behave as though there is no modversions information.
> >>
> >> Huh? This I don't get. If you have the new libkmod
On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 02:19:38PM -0800, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> If booted against an old kernel, it will
> behave as though there is no modversions information.
Huh? This I don't get. If you have the new libkmod and boot
an old kernel, that should just not break becauase well, long
symbols we
>
> > If booted against an old kernel, it will
> > behave as though there is no modversions information.
>
> Huh? This I don't get. If you have the new libkmod and boot
> an old kernel, that should just not break becauase well, long
> symbols were not ever supported properly anyway, so no regressio
On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 04:26:51PM -0800, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 2:10 PM Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 01:00:28PM -0700, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> > > > The question is, if only extended moversions are used, what new tooling
> > > > requirements are
On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 2:10 PM Luis Chamberlain wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 01:00:28PM -0700, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> > > The question is, if only extended moversions are used, what new tooling
> > > requirements are there? Can you test using only extended modversions?
> > >
> > > Luis
>
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 01:00:28PM -0700, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> > The question is, if only extended moversions are used, what new tooling
> > requirements are there? Can you test using only extended modversions?
> >
> > Luis
>
> I'm not sure precisely what you're asking for. Do you want:
> 1.
> The question is, if only extended moversions are used, what new tooling
> requirements are there? Can you test using only extended modversions?
>
> Luis
I'm not sure precisely what you're asking for. Do you want:
1. A kconfig that suppresses the emission of today's MODVERSIONS
format? This wou
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 11:05:03PM +, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> diff --git a/kernel/module/Kconfig b/kernel/module/Kconfig
> index
> e6b2427e5c190aacf7b9c5c1bb57fca39d311564..a31c617cd67d3d66b24d2fba34cbd5cc9c53ab78
> 100644
> --- a/kernel/module/Kconfig
> +++ b/kernel/module/Kconfig
> @@ -208,
Generate both the existing modversions format and the new extended one
when running modpost. Presence of this metadata in the final .ko is
guarded by CONFIG_EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS.
We no longer generate an error on long symbols in modpost if
CONFIG_EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS is set, as they can now be app
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