Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:15:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:15:29 -0500 Received: from smtp.actcom.co.il ([192.114.47.13]:3560 "EHLO lmail.actcom.co.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:15:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:25:16 +0200 From: Muli Ben-Yehuda To: Dax Kelson Cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5? Message-ID: <20030214182516.GG3632@actcom.co.il> References: <1045162343.1311.7.camel@mentor> <20030214060024.GC9578@actcom.co.il> <1045246324.1301.1.camel@mentor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1045246324.1301.1.camel@mentor> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 949 Lines: 26 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(). -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://syscalltrack.sf.net - 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/