Re: insmod problem after modutils upgrading

Keith Owens
2000-12-13T22:36:03Z

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 21:10:54 +0000 (GMT),
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>It is modutils. Their behaviour changed in a non back compatible way. Do not
>use modutils 2.3.22 with Linux 2.2.* is the simple answer. Perhaps Keith can
>make this a warning in 2.3.23

Adding persistent module data to modutils meant that insmod had to be a
lot more picky about MODULE_PARM() entries. There were a few modules
that had invalid MODULE_PARM() entries, nobody had spotted them
previously because nobody used those options. Since these are bugs in
the modules and only a few modules are affected (less than 5 reported),
the fix is to correct the modules that have coding errors.