From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262601AbTGPGTX (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:19:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263894AbTGPGTX (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:19:23 -0400 Received: from mail.cpt.sahara.co.za ([196.41.29.142]:56572 "EHLO workshop.saharact.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262601AbTGPGTM (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:19:12 -0400 Subject: Re: modules problems with 2.6.0 (module-init-tools-0.9.12) From: Martin Schlemmer To: Diego Calleja =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Garc=EDa?= Cc: Piet Delaney , rddunlap@osdl.org, fsanchez@mail.usfq.edu.ec, KML In-Reply-To: <20030716021210.56ea8360.diegocg@teleline.es> References: <3F147B8F.5000103@mail.usfq.edu.ec> <20030715152257.614d628b.rddunlap@osdl.org> <1058313192.21300.988.camel@www.piet.net> <20030716021210.56ea8360.diegocg@teleline.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: Message-Id: <1058337248.13515.1381.camel@workshop.saharacpt.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3- Date: 16 Jul 2003 08:34:09 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 02:12, Diego Calleja García wrote: > El 15 Jul 2003 16:53:12 -0700 Piet Delaney 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. That is Debian doing things differently again. The vanilla modules-init-tools will run insmod.old: $ ls /sbin/insmod* /sbin/insmod /sbin/insmod.old /sbin/insmod.static /sbin/insmod_ksymoops_clean $ Anyhow, usually reading the documentation (*hint* README *hint*) should help. -- Martin Schlemmer