2002-04-28 10:17:39

by Keith Owens

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Subject: Announce: modutils 2.4.16 is available

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ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.4

modutils-2.4.16.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file
modutils-2.4.16-1.src.rpm As above, in SRPM format
modutils-2.4.16-1.i386.rpm Compiled with gcc 2.96 20000731,
glibc 2.2.2.
modutils-2.4.16-1.ia64.rpm Compiled with gcc 2.96-ia64-20000731,
glibc-2.2.3.
modutils-2.4.16-1.sparc.rpm Compiled for combined 32/64 sparc, with gcc
2.95.4, glibc-2.2.5.
patch-modutils-2.4.16.gz Patch from modutils 2.4.15 to 2.4.16.

Changelog extract

* Print 'Module loaded, with warnings' for people who cannot tell the
difference between warnings and errors.
* Tell the user where to find more information about tainted modules.
* Add configure option TAINT_URL, default http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s1-18.
* Workaround for ppc64 symbols that contain _R in the name. Guy Streeter.
* Add alias char-major-200 vxspec. Tigran Aivazian.
* Add "look in syslog or dmesg output" to hints for failing modules.
Suggested by Georg Acher.
* Environment variable UNAME_MACHINE overides the value of uname machine.


Note to vendors who supply Linux systems that contain non-GPL modules.

I _strongly_ suggest that you configure and ship modutils with a URL
that points to your support policy, e.g.

TAINT_URL='http://www.some_vendor.com/linux/support/\#taint' configure

see the INSTALL file. Then your users will contact you with
questions instead of bothering the linux-kernel list and being told
to go away. Your users will be happier and l-k readers will be
happier.

Note to ppc32/64 and hppa32/64 users.

I have added environment variable UNAME_MACHINE to try to overcome
the problems of building 64 bit modules in a 32 bit environment and
vice versa. When set, this variable overrides the value of uname -m
in modutils. In particular, if you are building 64 bit modules on a
32 bit version of the same platform, doing

export UNAME_MACHINE=ppc64 (or hppa64)

should let modules_install handle the modules. It has had limited
testing, let me know if it does not work.

UNAME_MACHINE only works for 32/64 bit versions of the build machine,
and only when modutils was configured with --enable-combined-XXX.

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