From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
To: Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:25:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030214182516.GG3632@actcom.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1045246324.1301.1.camel@mentor>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-14 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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
2003-02-14 18:25 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2003-02-14 21:14 ` Joel Becker
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