On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 22:42 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote: > My current theory is that setting MODVERSIONS, somehow, hides the ERROR spew. > Because that could explain your bisect. Linus' commit turns of MODVERSIONS the > hard way. And, naturally, this theory fails if your .configs never had > MODVERSIONS set in the first place.
This theory appears to be correct! It's getting late here so I won't be spending much time on this anymore. Perhaps you fancy looking into all this now. And, maybe, a new day will bring me the courage needed to dive into this. Thanks, Paul Bolle