Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm
- To: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm
- From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 17:14:19 +0100
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On 2016-12-01 05:13, Don Zickus wrote:
> Sorry for chiming in late, but yes RHEL is a big user of MODVERSIONS for our
> kabi protection work. Despite our best intentions we still have lots of
> partners and customers that provide value-add out-of-tree drivers to their
> customers. These module builders requested we have a mechanism to allow
> rolling modules forward for each of our minor RHEL updates without breaking
> their drivers.
FWIW, in SLES we use CONFIG_MODVERSION for pretty much the same reasons
you listed. We also enable it in openSUSE, but there it's not as crucial.
Michal
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