Re: BUG: 4.9-rc6 Still "no symbol version" on boot

From: Robert LeBlanc
Date: Wed Nov 23 2016 - 16:02:40 EST


Confirmed that this patch does resolve the boot issue with
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y for me. Thank you for the patch and hopefully it
will get included in -rc7.

Thanks.
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Robert LeBlanc
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 09:08:28PM +0100, Philip MÃller wrote:
>> > due to following commit it seems the 64bit architecture of linux 4.9-rc
>> > is not able to boot at all, as it is unable to find its root device:
>
>> you have to apply following patch also:
>>
>> provide-asm-prototypes.h-for-x86.patch:
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9408985/raw/
>>
>> @Adam, Nick: Was this patch not yet sent to Linus?
>
> The patch stewed in a kbuild-targetted thread since the morning after -rc1,
> Nick has recently requested that it should go through x86 maintainers
> instead. I've sent it there, lemme ping them, as the regression is severe
> and 4.9-final is close.
>
> Apologies if I'm doing something wrong, I'm not a real kernel dev and merely
> was the person who came here looking for a fix, saw Nick's instructions
> and did the legwork implementing them.
>
> Last version (rewritten description) is at:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9439501/
> (needs s/oeter/peter/ for a typo in Peter Wu's address)
>
>
> Meow!
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