From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 23:03:05 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13828.978523385@ocs3.ocs-net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:40:05 BST." <20010103124005.A5179@emma1.emma.line.org>
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 12:40:05 +0100,
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>> >There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving
>> >its version when --version is used, should it?
>>
>> Historical accident. I want to clean that up but it breaks existing
>> behaviour;
>
>Okay, backwards compatibility weighs a lot.
>
>May I kindly ask you to give a note that -V does NOT terminate the
>program, but also comprises regular operation in --help and the man
>pages?
>
>I can send in a patch if you want (that just changes the docs, but not
>the functionality).
Don't bother. It will change in 2.5 anyway, I can live with the odd
query until then. If you really want to get only the version number
then this will work for modutils 2.x for x >= 3.
(/sbin/depmod -V -n | head -1) 2>/dev/null
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-01 6:38 Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available Keith Owens
2001-01-02 18:12 ` Matthias Andree
2001-01-03 7:04 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-03 11:40 ` Matthias Andree
2001-01-03 12:03 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2001-01-03 14:45 ` Matthias Andree
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