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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:53:50PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> The current method is that on "make install" the module-init-tools
> move the old ones to xxx.old (if they exist), and do a backwards
> compat check every time they start (and execvp xxx.old on every older
> kernel).  If it doesn't work for you, please report.

Which breaks nicely every package manager database.