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Re: arla 0.12 has missing modversions.h
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
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Subject: Re: arla 0.12 has missing modversions.h
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In message <lv1lnn1g1db.fsf@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.
+--->8
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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