Re: [PATCH] iget-locked [2/6]

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Sat, 11 May 2002 12:48:46 +1000


On Fri, 10 May 2002 21:21:16 -0500 (CDT),
Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
>On Sat, 11 May 2002, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> Build time is the least of your worries here. All objects that export
>> symbols must have unique basenames, all the modversion crud goes in
>> include/linux/modules under the object's basename.
>
>This is not true anymore in 2.5, this limitation was removed when ALSA
>went in.

True, but if the iget change goes into 2.5 it will probably be
backported to 2.4 later, 2.4 still has the restriction.

As for modversions on 2.5, well you know my opinion ;).

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