[PATCH] ARM: Thumb-2: Reflect ARM/Thumb-2 configuration in module vermagic

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Feb 22 15:25:14 EST 2011


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 03:03:46PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Dave Martin wrote:
> 
> > Loading Thumb-2 modules into an ARM kernel or vice-versa isn't
> > guaranteed to work safely, since the kernel is not interworking-
> > aware everywhere.
> 
> Too bad.
> 
> > This patch adds "thumb2" to the module vermagic when
> > CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL is enabled, to help avoid accidental loading
> > of modules into the wrong kernel.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>

Lets wait until after the next merge window has gone, or let's have a
patch which takes account of stuff already merged.  Either way, there
little point acking it as it needs an effective rewrite to fit around
the P2V changes to this file.



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