Adding Lucas DeMarchi to the thread after voicing an interest in the
modpost patch.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 12:49 AM Luis Chamberlain [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 10:06:12PM -0700, Matthew Maurer wrote:

quoted

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 9:37 PM Luis Chamberlain [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 12:22:36PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:

quoted

Matthew Maurer [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Adds a new format for MODVERSIONS which stores each field in a separate
ELF section. This initially adds support for variable length names, but
could later be used to add additional fields to MODVERSIONS in a
backwards compatible way if needed. Any new fields will be ignored by
old user tooling, unlike the current format where user tooling cannot
tolerate adjustments to the format (for example making the name field
longer).

Since PPC munges its version records to strip leading dots, we reproduce
the munging for the new format. Other architectures do not appear to
have architecture-specific usage of this information.

Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <redacted>
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 arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 24 ++++++++++-

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)

Michael, Matthew, why make everyone deal with this instead of just
making this an arch thing and ppc would be the only one doing it?

  Luis

I'm not sure I understand - the PPC changes are in an arch-specific
directory, and triggered through the arch-implemented callback
mod_frob_arch_sections. What would you like done to make it more of an
arch-thing?

Sorry, yes, I see that now, that's what I get for late night patch
review. Nevermidn, this all looks good to me now.

  Luis