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SubjectRe: x86 memsize > 1Gb patches.
Hello,

> Is the module versioning system going to pick up on differences in
> CONFIG_MAX_MEMSIZE?
>
> Functions such as phys_to_virt et. al. are going to be horribly broken when we
> compile modules with a different CONFIG_MAX_MEMSIZE to the kernel we're using.
> I _know_ that the correct answer might be "user education", but we're not
> designing an Alpha CPU here.

Maybe the correct answer is "Do we really need module versioning?"

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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