Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:57:21 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: RFC: [2.6 patch] disallow modular IPv6 |
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:24:10AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > > 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.
There is a postprocessing step when building modules that take care of modversioning. And yes, it requires a final vmlinux.
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