Re: [PATCH] Module alias and table support

David Brownell
2002-11-28T01:37:07Z

> 2.5.49 contains exports device ID tables again.

That's a start, but the 2.5 modutils don't handle them ...

>>Seems like one of the issues is that there's really no maintainer
>>for modutils lately. And I'm not even sure where to get the latest
>>modutils (more recent than 0.7) even if I were ready to patch them.
>
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.4/

Those won't work with the current 2.5 module syscalls though ...
the latest 2.5-usable modutils seems to be

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/module-init-tools-0.7.tar.bz2

but I've seen comments on LKML referring to a "0.8" version with
essential bugfixes.

- Dave