From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269895AbTGOX5Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:57:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269906AbTGOX5Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:57:25 -0400 Received: from smtp.terra.es ([213.4.129.129]:57665 "EHLO tsmtp9.mail.isp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269895AbTGOX5X convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:57:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:12:10 +0200 From: Diego Calleja =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Garc=EDa?= To: Piet Delaney Cc: rddunlap@osdl.org, fsanchez@mail.usfq.edu.ec, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: modules problems with 2.6.0 (module-init-tools-0.9.12) Message-Id: <20030716021210.56ea8360.diegocg@teleline.es> In-Reply-To: <1058313192.21300.988.camel@www.piet.net> References: <3F147B8F.5000103@mail.usfq.edu.ec> <20030715152257.614d628b.rddunlap@osdl.org> <1058313192.21300.988.camel@www.piet.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.