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Kai Germaschewski authored
This patch adds the new config option CONFIG_MODVERSIONING which will be the new way of checking for ABI changes between kernel and module code. This and the following patches are in part based on an initial implementation by Rusty Russell and I believe some of the ideas go back to discussions on linux-kbuild, Keith Owens and Rusty. though I'm not sure I think credit for the basic idea of storing version info in sections goes to Keith Owens and Rusty. o Rename __gpl_ksymtab to __ksymtab_gpl since that looks more consistent and appending _gpl instead of putting it into the middle simplifies sharing code for EXPORT_SYMBOL() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() o Add CONFIG_MODVERSIONING o If CONFIG_MODVERSIONING is set, add a section __kcrctab{,_gpl}, which contains the ABI checksums for the exported symbols listed in __ksymtab{,_crc} Since we don't know the checksums yet at compilation time, just make them an unresolved symbol which gets filled in by the linker later.
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