Re: [PATCH 2/3] modpost: Extended modversion support

2023-11-16 Thread Luis Chamberlain
On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 06:50:10PM +, Matthew Maurer wrote: > Adds a new format for modversions which stores each field in a separate > elf section. The "why" is critical and not mentioned. And I'd like to also see documented this with foresight, if Rust needed could this be used in the

[PATCH 2/3] modpost: Extended modversion support

2023-11-15 Thread Matthew Maurer
Adds a new format for modversions which stores each field in a separate elf section. This initially adds support for variable length names, but could later be used to add additional fields to modversions in a backwards compatible way if needed. Adding support for variable length names makes it