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On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:22:25 -0800, 
"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> wrote:
>	2.5.49 contains exports device ID tables again.  I think the
>existing depmod would work, except for some problem that Rusty found
>where it tries to use the kernel module interface (it really shouldn't
>care what operating system you're running as it should just read and
>write files).  Fix that depmod bug(?)

Not a bug.  depmod on its own reads the current kernel symbols.  depmod
-F map reads the symbosl from the mapfile and does not use the current
kernel at all.

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