From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:21:33 +0000 Subject: Re: modutils 2.4.2, please test asap Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Ah, but the hotplug utilities use it. A pure 2.2 system (kernel + modutils) has no "modules.*map" files. A pure 2.4 system (ditto) does have them. But 2.2.18 kernel + 2.4 modutils will generate "modules.*map" files, which is not compatible with the previous behavior of 2.2 modutils with such kernels. I forget (haven't used 2.2 in a long time) -- does 2.4 modutils keep to the 2.2 style module tree on 2.2 kernels, or does it change that around too? - Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Owens To: David Brownell Cc: Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 2:51 PM Subject: Re: modutils 2.4.2, please test asap > On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:30:02 -0800, > David Brownell wrote: > >As it stands, we saw a bug report this morning about how 2.4 modutils > >broke hotplugging with 2.2 kernels, since it created unusable (empty) > >"usbmap" files ... you're not as backwards-compatible as you may > >think you are! > > Having found the 2.2 backport, it is obvious that it does not use _any_ > modutils support. So an empty usbmap is perfectly correct and is > backwards compatible. No modules have MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(usb) so the > usbmap file is empty. Where's your problem? > _______________________________________________ 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