Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:01:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:01:19 -0500 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:39621 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:59:57 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jeff Garzik , kaos@ocs.com.au, Petr Vandrovec , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Modules in 2.5.47-bk... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:50:10 -0000." <20021114105010.A22135@infradead.org> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 04:53:39 +1100 Message-Id: <20021114170651.AD93C2C2E4@lists.samba.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1003 Lines: 24 In message <20021114105010.A22135@infradead.org> you write: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:53:50PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > > The current method is that on "make install" the module-init-tools > > move the old ones to xxx.old (if they exist), and do a backwards > > compat check every time they start (and execvp xxx.old on every older > > kernel). If it doesn't work for you, please report. > > Which breaks nicely every package manager database. Yes. So don't package it like that if you care about backwards compatibility. The entire point is that the new code is simple enough that you can quite simply fix it. And indeed, someone already has, while you were whining. Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/