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On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:15:31 -0700 (PDT), 
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
>Surely this is a smaller hammer than making them all NOVERS(), I
>think all of these workarounds with novers for assembly are silly and
>are merely looking for a solution which nobody (perhaps except me :-)
>is bothering to look for.

modversions.h will disappear in 2.5 anyway, and be replaced with a
cleaner system of symbol versions which does not rely on pre-processor
fudging of symbol names.  It should be able to handle assembler as well
as C.