modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?

modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?

[Dax Kelson]

Does such a thing exist?

I would like to help out testing 2.5, but I need to still use 2.4 as
well.

Dax

Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?

[John Bradford]

> Does such a thing exist?
> 
> I would like to help out testing 2.5, but I need to still use 2.4 as
> well.

You could always compile 2.5 without modules at all, which would be
the easy way :-)

John.

Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?

[Thomas Molina]

On 13 Feb 2003, Dax Kelson wrote:

> Does such a thing exist?
> 
> I would like to help out testing 2.5, but I need to still use 2.4 as
> well.

go to ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules and grab the 
latest.  If you have an rpm-capable system it is packaged as an rpm.

Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:52:23AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> Does such a thing exist?
> 
> I would like to help out testing 2.5, but I need to still use 2.4 as
> well.

Rusty's modutils package maintains the old modutils binaries and falls
back to them if it discovers that you're running a 2.4 system. If
you're installing from source, take a look at the documentation for
how to tell the Makefile to rename your $MODULE_BIN to
$MODULE_BIN.old
-- 
Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org
http://syscalltrack.sf.net

Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?

[Dax Kelson]

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 23:00, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:52:23AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > Does such a thing exist?
> > 
> > I would like to help out testing 2.5, but I need to still use 2.4 as
> > well.
> 
> Rusty's modutils package maintains the old modutils binaries and falls
> back to them if it discovers that you're running a 2.4 system.

Does it do this discovery at install time, or at each boot?

Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:12:03AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 23:00, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:52:23AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > > Does such a thing exist?
> > > 
> > > I would like to help out testing 2.5, but I need to still use 2.4 as
> > > well.
> > 
> > Rusty's modutils package maintains the old modutils binaries and falls
> > back to them if it discovers that you're running a 2.4 system.
> 
> Does it do this discovery at install time, or at each boot?

Each invocation, I suppose. Doesn't make much sense otherwise. 

see for example lsmod.c, main() -> try_old_version(). 
-- 
Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org
http://syscalltrack.sf.net

Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?

[Joel Becker]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 08:25:16PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > Does it do this discovery at install time, or at each boot?
> 
> Each invocation, I suppose. Doesn't make much sense otherwise. 

	Each invocation.  Note that because Rusty's modutils replaces
insmod.static, it nicely breaks machines that use initrds.

Joel

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