The modutils patch I sent with my bugreport did exactly that. It's attached here, against depmod 2.4.0 ... should give the same "modules.usbmap" output depmod 2.4.1 does. Not expected to work on prerelease/test kernel modules. ----- Original Message ----- From: Miles Lane To: Keith Owens Cc: Linus Torvalds ; Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 9:24 PM Subject: Re: (Linus, please respond!) Re: Roadmap to restoring working usbmodule autoloading? > Keith Owens wrote: > > > > > Fine, until the next time any of the table formats have to be changed. > > The version number on the kernel tables that depmod reads are there for > > future changes, not just for the current usb mess. Without a version > > number we will have exactly the same problems on the next ABI change. > > > > Whether we should support the 2.4.0-test format for usb is a separate > > question and has nothing to do with whether depmod needs version > > numbers at all. My patch is to future proof the kernel/depmod interface. > > Is there a way to rework modutils and your patch so that hotplugging > can work without introducing the version numbers that Linus doesn't > want to introduce? Then, you and he could settle the version tracking > resolution later without holding up support for /sbin/hotplug. > > Thanks, > Miles > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net > Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel