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From: David Ford <david@linux.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:13:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A21A720.75A4EEB1@linux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001126163655.A1637@vger.timpanogas.org> <E140AZB-0002Qh-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20001126164556.B1665@vger.timpanogas.org>

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"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:46:35PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > +           {"ignore-versions", 0, 0, 'i'},
> >
> > I dont think we should encourage anyone to ignore symbol versions
>
> Anaconda will barf and require over 850+ changes to the scripts without
> it.  If you look at the patch, you will note that it's a silent switch
> that's only there to avoid a noisy error message from depmod.  It
> actually does nothing other than set a flag that also does nothing.
> -m simply maps to -F.

It's still a bad precedent.  Anaconda should have been written correctly in
the first place.

-d


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-11-27  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-26 23:36 [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-26 22:46 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-26 23:27   ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-26 23:45   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-26 23:02     ` Mohammad A. Haque
2000-11-27  0:03       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-26 23:15         ` Tom Rini
2000-11-27  2:39           ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-27  0:16         ` David Ford
2000-11-27  2:46           ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-27  1:58             ` Tom Rini
2000-11-27  0:13     ` David Ford [this message]
2000-11-27  2:11       ` Alan Cox
2000-11-27  3:33         ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-26 23:23 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-27  2:43   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-27 16:48   ` Jes Sorensen
2000-11-27 16:59     ` Jakub Jelinek

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