[Dextrose] Problems compiling bluetooth module

Chris Ball cjb at laptop.org
Wed Jan 5 18:11:16 EST 2011


Hi,

   > The version of gcc might take part in computing the magic number.
   > 
   > The idea is to prevent users from causing hard to diagnose bugs
   > by inadvertently loading modules that aren't 100% ABI compatible
   > with the running kernel.

It might, but it doesn't -- see include/linux/vermagic.h's VERMAGIC_STRING.

- Chris.
-- 
Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child



More information about the Devel mailing list