Re: insmod problem after modutils upgrading

Alan Cox
2000-12-14T01:12:49Z

> Well, if it is going to take that long to fix 2.2 ... modutils 2.3.23

It may do. 2.2.18 took a long time.

> will make this a semi-warning. modules with invalid MODULE_PARM for
> options that are not used will load, but the module will not support
> persistent data. If somebody actually tries to use one of the invalid
> options then insmod will fail, it already does this.

That sounds fine. Warning is sensible, not supporting persistent data is
obvious enough and 2.2 doesnt do that yet so it isnt a problem.

Alan