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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On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 11:05:03PM +0000, Matthew Maurer wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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