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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: modutils 2.3.20 not backward compatible
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:46:38 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5038.974864798@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:17:47 PDT." <3A1B3ADB.17200DF6@timpanogas.org>

On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:17:47 -0700, 
"Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org> wrote:
>Was there a reason we removed the -i and -m options from newer modutils
>and broke backwards caompatibility?  I'm re-writing our module build
>scripts for the installer, and I discovered after upgrading to 2.3.20,
>that all the build scripts (about 10MB worth) are now busted and I have
>been spending most of this evening rewriting them so they work again.   

-i and -m have never been in the base code.  -i in depmod is a Redhat
add on, only in their distribution.  I have no idea what -m does, apart
from -m in insmod which is supported.  Blame the distributors.

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-22  4:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-22  3:17 modutils 2.3.20 not backward compatible Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-22  3:46 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2000-11-22  5:12   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-22 11:47   ` Igmar Palsenberg

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