Re: SMP vs. UP modules

From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Date: Wed Apr 26 2000 - 01:16:08 EST


On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:44:17 -0700,
"Dunlap, Randy" <randy.dunlap@intel.com> wrote:
>Does CONFIG_MODVERSIONS help any with modules that are
>built for SMP vs. UP kernels?

Absolutely. You get symbols like xyz_Rsmp_0e9db287, 0e9db287 is the
CRC check on the symbol "type", smp indicates it was compiled for smp.
A module compiled for UP would want symbols xyz_R_0e9db287 and would
fail to load.

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