Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available

Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available

[Keith Owens]

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ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.3

patch-modutils-2.3.24.gz        Patch from modutils 2.3.23 to 2.3.24
modutils-2.3.24.tar.gz          Source tarball, includes RPM spec file
modutils-2.3.24-1.src.rpm       As above, in SRPM format
modutils-2.3.24-1.i386.rpm      Compiled with egcs-2.91.66, glibc 2.1.2
modutils-2.3.24-1.sparc.rpm     Compiled for combined sparc 32/64
patch-2.4.0-prerelease.gz	Adds persistent data and generic string
				support to kernel 2.4.0-prerelease.

Changelog extract

	* Correct check for empty generic string.
	* Add alias usbdevfs usbcore.

Assuming no problems are found in modutils and assuming that kernel
2.4.0-prerelease is followed by the official 2.4 kernel then this
version of modutils will be repackaged as modutils 2.4.0.

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Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available

[Matthias Andree]

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On Mon, 01 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:

> ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.3
> 
> modutils-2.3.24-1.src.rpm       As above, in SRPM format

There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving
its version when --version is used, should it? I'd rather expect exit(0)
or _exit(0); for --version and --help.

(modprobe shows the same behaviour as depmod, insmod throws its version
number and the usage information, I did not bother to check the other
tools.)

$ /sbin/depmod --version
depmod version 2.3.24
Warning: You do not need a link from /etc/conf.modules to
         /etc/modules.conf.  The use of /etc/conf.modules is deprecated,
         please remove /etc/conf.modules as soon as possible.  Command
           rm /etc/conf.modules
depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.18-ma2/modules.dep for writing

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Matthias Andree

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Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available

[Keith Owens]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:12:49 +0100, 
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving
>its version when --version is used, should it?

Historical accident.  I want to clean that up but it breaks existing
behaviour; somewhere, somebody is bound to rely on depmod -V updating
modules.dep at the same time.  modutils 2.5 will clean up a lot of
backwards compatibility crud, including this one.  But you will not see
modutils 2.5 until Linus rolls kernel 2.5 and we start the next
development cycle.

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Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available

[Matthias Andree]

On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:

> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> >There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving
> >its version when --version is used, should it?
> 
> Historical accident.  I want to clean that up but it breaks existing
> behaviour; somewhere, somebody is bound to rely on depmod -V updating
> modules.dep at the same time.  modutils 2.5 will clean up a lot of
> backwards compatibility crud, including this one.  But you will not see
> modutils 2.5 until Linus rolls kernel 2.5 and we start the next
> development cycle.

Okay, backwards compatibility weighs a lot.

May I kindly ask you to give a note that -V does NOT terminate the
program, but also comprises regular operation in --help and the man
pages? 

I can send in a patch if you want (that just changes the docs, but not
the functionality).

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Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available

[Keith Owens]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 12:40:05 +0100, 
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>> >There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving
>> >its version when --version is used, should it?
>> 
>> Historical accident.  I want to clean that up but it breaks existing
>> behaviour;
>
>Okay, backwards compatibility weighs a lot.
>
>May I kindly ask you to give a note that -V does NOT terminate the
>program, but also comprises regular operation in --help and the man
>pages? 
>
>I can send in a patch if you want (that just changes the docs, but not
>the functionality).

Don't bother.  It will change in 2.5 anyway, I can live with the odd
query until then.  If you really want to get only the version number
then this will work for modutils 2.x for x >= 3.

  (/sbin/depmod -V -n | head -1) 2>/dev/null

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Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available

[Matthias Andree]

On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:

> >I can send in a patch if you want (that just changes the docs, but not
> >the functionality).
> 
> Don't bother.  It will change in 2.5 anyway, I can live with the odd
> query until then.  If you really want to get only the version number
> then this will work for modutils 2.x for x >= 3.
> 
>   (/sbin/depmod -V -n | head -1) 2>/dev/null

I was just thinking to write -V "output version in addition to normal
operation" in --help, nothing bigger than like 5 minutes.

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