Re: modules problems with 2.6.0 (module-init-tools-0.9.12)

From: Max Valdez <maxvalde@fis.unam.mx>
To: kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: modules problems with 2.6.0 (module-init-tools-0.9.12)
Date: 15 Jul 2003 15:13:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058299988.5432.14.camel@garaged.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030716021210.56ea8360.diegocg@teleline.es>

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Gentoo works too, with 2.5 and 2.6, 2.4 works as expected, like before
installing the devel kernels

:-)

Im going for the first day of uptime with 2.6, and no problem at all

Max
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 19:12, Diego Calleja García wrote:
> El 15 Jul 2003 16:53:12 -0700 Piet Delaney <piet@www.piet.net> escribió:
> 
> > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 15:22, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > 
> > I heard that if you install the new module-init-tools package in
> > /sbin that you would be able to boot old kernels. Is that true?
> 
> It works here.
> i've a debian distro, i apt-get'ed module-init-tools. Man modprobe says:
> 
> BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY
>        This version of insmod is  for  kernels  2.5.48  and  above.   If  it
>        detects  a kernel with support for old-style modules (for which much of
>        the work was done in userspace), it will attempt to run  insmod.modu-
>        tils in its place, so it is completely transparent to the user.
> 
> diego@estel:~$ ls -l /sbin/insmod*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         5072 2003-06-15 12:27 /sbin/insmod
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          359 2003-03-06 15:50 /sbin/insmod_ksymoops_clean
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        95372 2003-03-06 15:50 /sbin/insmod.modutils
> 
> 
> Looking at the size, insmod.modutils seems the 2.4 insmod loader. 
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