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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:18:38 -0700
From: Michal Jaegermann <michal@harddata.com>
To: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Subject: Re: [2.5] initrd/mkinitrd still not working
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In-Reply-To: <20030120193546.GC1314@mars.ravnborg.org>; from sam@ravnborg.org on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:35:46PM +0100
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:35:46PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:19:21PM +0000, John Levon wrote:
> > Ooops, I was mis-remembering commit logs. I meant :
> > 
> > http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/user=kai/cset@1.838.1.86?nav=!-|index.html|stats|!+|index.html|ChangeSet
> 
> OK, this is something else.
> Making the shift to the extension .ko allowed the syntax:
> make fs/ext2/ext2.ko or whatever module we want to build.
> 
> Thats very nice when developing on a module to speed up things.

Well, yes, but while installing into a final location all these .ko
files could be renamed to have .o extensions.  This would avoid
screwing up user-space utilities.  It is not that difficult to
fix mkinitrd to try _both_ ways (I do not know how many folks runs
exclusively 2.5 kernels) but who knows how many other things
will have to be modified introducing gratituos incompatibilities.

   Michal
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