Messages in this thread | | | From | nathan.zook@amd ... | Subject | RE: SMP Extraversion | Date | Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:01:06 -0500 |
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This seems somewhat related to one of my peeves, namely that a newbie recompiling the kernel can wipe out his modules directory WAY to easily. (Yes, it happened to me a few times before I figured out what was wrong.) A (default?) option to generate extraversion-type information in order to prevent overwriting previous results would avoid this. Kernel hackers would turn it off almost as a matter of course, but someone wanting to rebuild the kernel with the latest gcc might find this a lifesaver.
Nathan
> attached is a patch which does append the string "-SMP" to the kernel > version, if the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_SMP. > > For slight changes, the MODVERSION mechanism is best suited.
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