Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2003 02:24:10 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] disallow modular IPv6 |
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:14:02 +0100 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> Not at all. You're talking about something entirely different.
I think they are the same. It's module building depending upon the kernel image being up to date.
modules: vmlinux image ... blah blah blah
or however you want to express it in the makefiles.
> In the 2.6 kernel, I suspect that these same version strings are now > produced as a side-effect of the 'make vmlinux' stage, and hence that > it's required to 'make vmlinux' before any modules can be built.
What this means is that it's required for the kernel image to be up to date before any modules can be built. If we can check that in the build system for the sake of modversions (and if we're not doing that now it's a bug we should fix) we can do it equally for ipv6.
> This (potential) dependency is entirely unrelated to any _changes_ in > configuration.
I don't see how this changes the argument I'm trying to make.
I'm saying that either you accept that the kernel image must be uptodate in order to build modules, or you don't. It doesn't matter what creates that dependency.
You can't say "the ipv6 thing is different because a config change from 'n' to 'm' is creating the dependency", that doesn't make it special. In all such cases, modules require the kernel image they are being built for to be uptodate. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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