Re: [PATCH v8 2/3] modpost: Produce extended MODVERSIONS information

From
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Date
2024-10-31 11:37:33
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Reply to
Matthew Maurer, 2024-10-30
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 11:05:03PM +0000, Matthew Maurer wrote:
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diff --git a/kernel/module/Kconfig b/kernel/module/Kconfig
index e6b2427e5c190aacf7b9c5c1bb57fca39d311564..a31c617cd67d3d66b24d2fba34cbd5cc9c53ab78 100644
--- a/kernel/module/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/module/Kconfig
@@ -208,6 +208,16 @@ config ASM_MODVERSIONS
 	  assembly. This can be enabled only when the target architecture
 	  supports it.
 
+config EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS
+	bool "Extended Module Versioning Support"
+	depends on MODVERSIONS
+	help
+	  This enables extended MODVERSIONs support, allowing long symbol
+	  names to be versioned.
+
+	  The most likely reason you would enable this is to enable Rust
+	  support. If unsure, say N.
+
The question is, if only extended moversions are used, what new tooling
requirements are there? Can you test using only extended modversions?

  Luis
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