From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
kaos@ocs.com.au, Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Modules in 2.5.47-bk...
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 04:53:39 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021114170651.AD93C2C2E4@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:50:10 -0000." <20021114105010.A22135@infradead.org>
In message <20021114105010.A22135@infradead.org> you write:
> 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.
Yes. So don't package it like that if you care about backwards
compatibility.
The entire point is that the new code is simple enough that you can
quite simply fix it. And indeed, someone already has, while you were
whining.
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-14 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-13 18:36 Modules in 2.5.47-bk Petr Vandrovec
2002-11-13 21:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14 3:53 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-14 4:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14 5:22 ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-14 15:45 ` Thierry Vignaud
2002-11-16 13:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-11-16 21:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14 10:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-11-14 17:53 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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