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modpost: Allow extended modversions without basic MODVERSIONS

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If you know that your kernel modules will only ever be loaded by a newer
kernel, you can disable BASIC_MODVERSIONS to save space. This also
allows easy creation of test modules to see how tooling will respond to
modules that only have the new format.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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Matthew Maurer
2025-01-03 17:37:03 +00:00
committed by Masahiro Yamada
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@@ -217,6 +217,21 @@ config EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS
The most likely reason you would enable this is to enable Rust
support. If unsure, say N.
config BASIC_MODVERSIONS
bool "Basic Module Versioning Support"
depends on MODVERSIONS
default y
help
This enables basic MODVERSIONS support, allowing older tools or
kernels to potentially load modules.
Disabling this may cause older `modprobe` or `kmod` to be unable
to read MODVERSIONS information from built modules. With this
disabled, older kernels may treat this module as unversioned.
This is enabled by default when MODVERSIONS are enabled.
If unsure, say Y.
config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
bool "Source checksum for all modules"
help