* Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available
@ 2001-01-01 6:38 Keith Owens
2001-01-02 18:12 ` Matthias Andree
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Keith Owens @ 2001-01-01 6:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
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ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.3
patch-modutils-2.3.24.gz Patch from modutils 2.3.23 to 2.3.24
modutils-2.3.24.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file
modutils-2.3.24-1.src.rpm As above, in SRPM format
modutils-2.3.24-1.i386.rpm Compiled with egcs-2.91.66, glibc 2.1.2
modutils-2.3.24-1.sparc.rpm Compiled for combined sparc 32/64
patch-2.4.0-prerelease.gz Adds persistent data and generic string
support to kernel 2.4.0-prerelease.
Changelog extract
* Correct check for empty generic string.
* Add alias usbdevfs usbcore.
Assuming no problems are found in modutils and assuming that kernel
2.4.0-prerelease is followed by the official 2.4 kernel then this
version of modutils will be repackaged as modutils 2.4.0.
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* Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available
2001-01-01 6:38 Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available Keith Owens
@ 2001-01-02 18:12 ` Matthias Andree
2001-01-03 7:04 ` Keith Owens
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Matthias Andree @ 2001-01-02 18:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
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On Mon, 01 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
> ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.3
>
> modutils-2.3.24-1.src.rpm As above, in SRPM format
There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving
its version when --version is used, should it? I'd rather expect exit(0)
or _exit(0); for --version and --help.
(modprobe shows the same behaviour as depmod, insmod throws its version
number and the usage information, I did not bother to check the other
tools.)
$ /sbin/depmod --version
depmod version 2.3.24
Warning: You do not need a link from /etc/conf.modules to
/etc/modules.conf. The use of /etc/conf.modules is deprecated,
please remove /etc/conf.modules as soon as possible. Command
rm /etc/conf.modules
depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.18-ma2/modules.dep for writing
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available
2001-01-02 18:12 ` Matthias Andree
@ 2001-01-03 7:04 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-03 11:40 ` Matthias Andree
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Keith Owens @ 2001-01-03 7:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Matthias Andree; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:12:49 +0100,
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving
>its version when --version is used, should it?
Historical accident. I want to clean that up but it breaks existing
behaviour; somewhere, somebody is bound to rely on depmod -V updating
modules.dep at the same time. modutils 2.5 will clean up a lot of
backwards compatibility crud, including this one. But you will not see
modutils 2.5 until Linus rolls kernel 2.5 and we start the next
development cycle.
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* Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available
2001-01-03 7:04 ` Keith Owens
@ 2001-01-03 11:40 ` Matthias Andree
2001-01-03 12:03 ` Keith Owens
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From: Matthias Andree @ 2001-01-03 11:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> >There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving
> >its version when --version is used, should it?
>
> Historical accident. I want to clean that up but it breaks existing
> behaviour; somewhere, somebody is bound to rely on depmod -V updating
> modules.dep at the same time. modutils 2.5 will clean up a lot of
> backwards compatibility crud, including this one. But you will not see
> modutils 2.5 until Linus rolls kernel 2.5 and we start the next
> development cycle.
Okay, backwards compatibility weighs a lot.
May I kindly ask you to give a note that -V does NOT terminate the
program, but also comprises regular operation in --help and the man
pages?
I can send in a patch if you want (that just changes the docs, but not
the functionality).
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* Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available
2001-01-03 11:40 ` Matthias Andree
@ 2001-01-03 12:03 ` Keith Owens
2001-01-03 14:45 ` Matthias Andree
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Keith Owens @ 2001-01-03 12:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Matthias Andree; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 12:40:05 +0100,
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>> >There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving
>> >its version when --version is used, should it?
>>
>> Historical accident. I want to clean that up but it breaks existing
>> behaviour;
>
>Okay, backwards compatibility weighs a lot.
>
>May I kindly ask you to give a note that -V does NOT terminate the
>program, but also comprises regular operation in --help and the man
>pages?
>
>I can send in a patch if you want (that just changes the docs, but not
>the functionality).
Don't bother. It will change in 2.5 anyway, I can live with the odd
query until then. If you really want to get only the version number
then this will work for modutils 2.x for x >= 3.
(/sbin/depmod -V -n | head -1) 2>/dev/null
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* Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available
2001-01-03 12:03 ` Keith Owens
@ 2001-01-03 14:45 ` Matthias Andree
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From: Matthias Andree @ 2001-01-03 14:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
> >I can send in a patch if you want (that just changes the docs, but not
> >the functionality).
>
> Don't bother. It will change in 2.5 anyway, I can live with the odd
> query until then. If you really want to get only the version number
> then this will work for modutils 2.x for x >= 3.
>
> (/sbin/depmod -V -n | head -1) 2>/dev/null
I was just thinking to write -V "output version in addition to normal
operation" in --help, nothing bigger than like 5 minutes.
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