Does such a thing exist?
I would like to help out testing 2.5, but I need to still use 2.4 as
well.
Dax
> Does such a thing exist?
>
> I would like to help out testing 2.5, but I need to still use 2.4 as
> well.
You could always compile 2.5 without modules at all, which would be
the easy way :-)
John.
On 13 Feb 2003, Dax Kelson wrote:
> Does such a thing exist?
>
> I would like to help out testing 2.5, but I need to still use 2.4 as
> well.
go to ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules and grab the
latest. If you have an rpm-capable system it is packaged as an rpm.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:52:23AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> Does such a thing exist?
>
> I would like to help out testing 2.5, but I need to still use 2.4 as
> well.
Rusty's modutils package maintains the old modutils binaries and falls
back to them if it discovers that you're running a 2.4 system. If
you're installing from source, take a look at the documentation for
how to tell the Makefile to rename your $MODULE_BIN to
$MODULE_BIN.old
--
Muli Ben-Yehuda
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http://syscalltrack.sf.net
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 23:00, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:52:23AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > Does such a thing exist?
> >
> > I would like to help out testing 2.5, but I need to still use 2.4 as
> > well.
>
> Rusty's modutils package maintains the old modutils binaries and falls
> back to them if it discovers that you're running a 2.4 system.
Does it do this discovery at install time, or at each boot?
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:12:03AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 23:00, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:52:23AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > > Does such a thing exist?
> > >
> > > I would like to help out testing 2.5, but I need to still use 2.4 as
> > > well.
> >
> > Rusty's modutils package maintains the old modutils binaries and falls
> > back to them if it discovers that you're running a 2.4 system.
>
> Does it do this discovery at install time, or at each boot?
Each invocation, I suppose. Doesn't make much sense otherwise.
see for example lsmod.c, main() -> try_old_version().
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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http://syscalltrack.sf.net
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 08:25:16PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > Does it do this discovery at install time, or at each boot?
>
> Each invocation, I suppose. Doesn't make much sense otherwise.
Each invocation. Note that because Rusty's modutils replaces
insmod.static, it nicely breaks machines that use initrds.
Joel
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