Re: no version magic, tainting kernel.

Joel Becker (Joel.Becker@oracle.com)
Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:03:12 -0800

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:43:57PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Er, if vermagic.o needed to change, then your module build was broken
> already and wouldn't have worked against the precompiled kernel. That's

If you've precompiled the kernel, you have a full kernel built
tree. If you haven't, then vermagic.o isn't there. Plus, modversions
requires the objects according to kai.
In 2.4, a "make config" and "make dep" pretty much does what is
needed. The kernel is ready to be used by external modules.

Joel

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