Announce: modutils 2.4.9 is available

Announce: modutils 2.4.9 is available

[Keith Owens]

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ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.4

modutils-2.4.9.tar.gz           Source tarball, includes RPM spec file
modutils-2.4.9-1.src.rpm        As above, in SRPM format
modutils-2.4.9-1.i386.rpm       Compiled with gcc 2.96 20000731,
				glibc 2.2.2.
modutils-2.4.9-1.ia64.rpm       Compiled with gcc 2.96-ia64-20000731,
				glibc-2.2.3.
patch-modutils-2.4.9.gz         Patch from modutils 2.4.8 to 2.4.9.

Related kernel patches.

patch-2.4.2-persistent.gz       Adds persistent data and generic string
				support to kernel 2.4.2 onwards.  Optional.

Changelog extract

	* Update to latest config.guess/sub from ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/config.
	* Add sh (super-h) support from Niibe Yutaka.
	* IEEE1394 support by Kristian Hogsberg, cleaned up by KAO.
	* Add support for Alpha GPREL16, GPRELHIGH, GPRELLOW relocs.
	  Fix short data section allocation order for Alpha and IA-64.
	  Don't relocate non-allocated sections.  Richard Henderson.
	* Mark the kernel as tainted for non-GPL modules or insmod -f.

That last addition goes with the MODULE_LICENSE patch from Alan Cox and
my patch for /proc/sys/kernel/tainted, mailed to linux-kernel on
September 25, 07:00 GMT.  If /proc/sys/kernel/tainted exists and you
load a module with no license you will get a warning and the kernel
will be tainted, expect a lot of warnings until AC has all modules
patched.  Even if /proc/sys/kernel/tainted does not exist, loading a
module that has MODULE_LICENSE other than GPL or using insmod -f will
result in a warning.

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Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.9 is available

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

I just built and installed modutils-2.4.9.

Building vanilla 2.4.10, while doing 'make modules_install':

cd /lib/modules/2.4.10; \
mkdir -p pcmcia; \
find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{}
pcmcia
if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map  2.4.10; fi
depmod: Unexpected value (20) in
'/lib/modules/2.4.10/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for
ieee1394_device_size
        It is likely that the kernel structure has changed, if so then
        you probably need a new version of modutils to handle this
kernel.
        Check linux/Documentation/Changes.
make: *** [_modinst_post] Error 255

I can reproduce it with a simple
# depmod -V -ae -F System.map 2.4.10
depmod version 2.4.9
depmod: Unexpected value (20) in
'/lib/modules/2.4.10/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for
ieee1394_device_size
        It is likely that the kernel structure has changed, if so then
        you probably need a new version of modutils to handle this
kernel.
        Check linux/Documentation/Changes.

It always mentions the same module.

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.anu.edu.au/eyal/>

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.9 is available

[Keith Owens]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:30:11 +1000, 
Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
>I just built and installed modutils-2.4.9.
>depmod: Unexpected value (20) in
>'/lib/modules/2.4.10/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for
>ieee1394_device_size
>        It is likely that the kernel structure has changed, if so then
>        you probably need a new version of modutils to handle this
>kernel.

struct ieee1394_device_id in the kernel does not match the layout in
the modutils ieee1394 patch from Kristian Hogsberg.  Kristian's patch
to me had an extra field at the end.  I suggest adding
	void *driver_data;
to the end of struct ieee1394_device_id in
drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_hotplug.h.

Index: 10.1/drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_hotplug.h
--- 10.1/drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_hotplug.h Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:14:10 +1000 kaos (linux-2.4/Q/e/44_ieee1394_h 1.1 644)
+++ 10.1(w)/drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394_hotplug.h Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:32:33 +1000 kaos (linux-2.4/Q/e/44_ieee1394_h 1.1 644)
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ struct ieee1394_device_id {
 	u32 model_id;
 	u32 sw_specifier_id;
 	u32 sw_specifier_version;
+	void *driver_data;
 };
 
 #define IEEE1394_PROTOCOL(id, version) {				       \

Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.9 is available

[Ben Collins]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:33:18PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:30:11 +1000, 
> Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
> >I just built and installed modutils-2.4.9.
> >depmod: Unexpected value (20) in
> >'/lib/modules/2.4.10/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for
> >ieee1394_device_size
> >        It is likely that the kernel structure has changed, if so then
> >        you probably need a new version of modutils to handle this
> >kernel.

Kernel 2.4.9/2.4.10 do not contain the latest changes to the ieee1394
tree. I've been trying to push the patches to Linus, but he is real
busy, so it may take some time. Maybe 2.4.11 :)

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Re: Announce: modutils 2.4.9 is available

[Kristian Hogsberg]

Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:33:18PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:30:11 +1000, 
> > Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
> > >I just built and installed modutils-2.4.9.
> > >depmod: Unexpected value (20) in
> > >'/lib/modules/2.4.10/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for
> > >ieee1394_device_size
> > >        It is likely that the kernel structure has changed, if so then
> > >        you probably need a new version of modutils to handle this
> > >kernel.
> 
> Kernel 2.4.9/2.4.10 do not contain the latest changes to the ieee1394
> tree. I've been trying to push the patches to Linus, but he is real
> busy, so it may take some time. Maybe 2.4.11 :)

Yes, when I sent the patch to modutils, I expected the latest cvs
changes to make it into 2.4.10.  Hopefully they will be in 2.4.11.

Kristian