Re: modules in 2.6 kernel - question for FAQ?

[Rusty Russell]

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 14:44, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:52:48AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 05:42, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > > insmod: error inserting './Intel537.ko': -1 Invalid module format
> > 
> > They didn't use -fno-common.  The patch which adds in the warning got
> > lost a while back.
> > 
> > Here's a new one...
> 
> Is it be possible to detect this during the modpost stage, or do they manage to
> avoid that in some way?
> I would rather see the error a bit earlier. Eventually depmod.
> Still your patch make relevance as a double check.

They can only do this if they're not using the kernel makefiles.  So I
don't really think it's a priority...

Cheers,
Rusty.
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