Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:37:54 -0800 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: no version magic, tainting kernel. |
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:08:50PM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > Well, I suppose arguing about that without a concrete example is kinda > pointless.
Fair enough.
> You ignored the fact that I said you will be able to use separate > src/objdir, which means you can have your source read-only.
Yes. That still doesn't change the fact that in 2.4 I need the headers. In 2.5 I need all 200MB of source + 60MB per different .config of built tree. And that's per user using that source.
> Yes, all you really need is the checksums. Then again, you also want a way > to verify a way that the checksums match the ABI as determined by the > current .config. I mean, just using the previously recorded checksums > without verifying is kinda pointless, they'll just always match and not > fulfill their function.
You'd obviously have to have a way in the readonly /usr/src bits to make sure that autoconf.h and the checksums match. That would have to be enforced (as Red Hat does now with their method).
> Yup, I now looked into what Redhat does. It's an obvious sign that there > is work to be done, in particular making the build system work in a way > that vendors don't need to kludge around it would definitely be nice.
Maybe a way to track the differnet builds. I'm not sure. But say you had a way of keeping multiple autoconf.h files in a tree. If the kernel sources could be smart enough to figure out the version.h and modversions locations from that path, then you could have an external module create a kbuild makefile for itself and run something like:
make KERN_CONF=/usr/src/linux-2.6.1/include/autoconf/build-smp/autoconf.h modules
where kbuild figures out from KERN_CONF that modversions stuff is in autoconf/buid-smp/modversions/ and version.h is in autoconf/build-smp/version.h, etc. Something like that (I can beef with this example, so no one tell me exactly why this specific example is bad :-)
> which needs serious thinking and improvement. However, I think I need to > finish the current work first, i.e. make sure the module versions actually > work and then the separate obj / src dir stuff.
Yes, I understand that there are priorities.
Joel
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