arla 0.12 has missing modversions.h

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at kf8nh.apk.net
Wed Sep 30 23:51:27 CEST 1998


In message <lv1lnn1g1db.fsf at yakko.stacken.kth.se>, Magnus Ahltorp writes:
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| linux/module.h does not include linux/modversions.h is MODVERSIONS is
| set. I suspect that there is a reason for this.
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The reason is because the kernel folks don't want it to end up in the 
dependencies, so they use "gcc ... -DMODVERSIONS -include 
linux/modversions.h" instead.  This makes life difficult for the maintainers 
of separate modules.

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