* modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?
@ 2003-02-13 18:52 Dax Kelson
2003-02-13 19:00 ` John Bradford
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From: Dax Kelson @ 2003-02-13 18:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux Kernel
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
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2003-02-13 18:52 modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5? Dax Kelson
@ 2003-02-13 19:00 ` John Bradford
2003-02-13 22:17 ` Thomas Molina
2003-02-14 6:00 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: John Bradford @ 2003-02-13 19:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dax Kelson; +Cc: linux-kernel
> 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.
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* Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?
2003-02-13 18:52 modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5? Dax Kelson
2003-02-13 19:00 ` John Bradford
@ 2003-02-13 22:17 ` Thomas Molina
2003-02-14 6:00 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Molina @ 2003-02-13 22:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dax Kelson; +Cc: Linux Kernel
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.
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* Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?
2003-02-13 18:52 modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5? Dax Kelson
2003-02-13 19:00 ` John Bradford
2003-02-13 22:17 ` Thomas Molina
@ 2003-02-14 6:00 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-02-14 18:12 ` Dax Kelson
2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Muli Ben-Yehuda @ 2003-02-14 6:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dax Kelson; +Cc: Linux Kernel
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
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* Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?
2003-02-14 6:00 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
@ 2003-02-14 18:12 ` Dax Kelson
2003-02-14 18:25 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
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From: Dax Kelson @ 2003-02-14 18:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Muli Ben-Yehuda; +Cc: Linux Kernel
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?
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* Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?
2003-02-14 18:12 ` Dax Kelson
@ 2003-02-14 18:25 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-02-14 21:14 ` Joel Becker
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Muli Ben-Yehuda @ 2003-02-14 18:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dax Kelson; +Cc: Linux Kernel
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
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* Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?
2003-02-14 18:25 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
@ 2003-02-14 21:14 ` Joel Becker
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From: Joel Becker @ 2003-02-14 21:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Muli Ben-Yehuda; +Cc: Dax Kelson, Linux Kernel
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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