On Monday 14 August 2006 11:06, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 06:48 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Does anybody know of any reason why we would still need the compiler version > > check during module loading? AFAIK on i386 it was only needed to handle > > 2.95 (which got dropped) and on x86-64 it was never needed. Is there > > a need on any other architecture for it? > > is there any harm in doing this check?
Yes, it can cause lots of trouble when you try to compile external modules on a different system with different compiler than on the system where the kernel was compiled. e.g. you upgrade a distribution kernel but now you can compile modules for it because the new rpm was compiled with a newer compiler. Happens to me regularly. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
