Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269981AbTGPA5x (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:57:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269983AbTGPA5x (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:57:53 -0400 Received: from ce.fis.unam.mx ([132.248.33.1]:65498 "EHLO ce.fis.unam.mx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269981AbTGPA5v (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:57:51 -0400 Subject: Re: modules problems with 2.6.0 (module-init-tools-0.9.12) From: Max Valdez To: kernel In-Reply-To: <20030716021210.56ea8360.diegocg@teleline.es> References: <3F147B8F.5000103@mail.usfq.edu.ec> <20030715152257.614d628b.rddunlap@osdl.org> <1058313192.21300.988.camel@www.piet.net> <20030716021210.56ea8360.diegocg@teleline.es> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-hSQeNGu7Wr07OACzVvv0" Message-Id: <1058299988.5432.14.camel@garaged.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 15 Jul 2003 15:13:08 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2678 Lines: 78 --=-hSQeNGu7Wr07OACzVvv0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Gentoo works too, with 2.5 and 2.6, 2.4 works as expected, like before installing the devel kernels :-) Im going for the first day of uptime with 2.6, and no problem at all Max On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 19:12, Diego Calleja Garc=EDa wrote: > El 15 Jul 2003 16:53:12 -0700 Piet Delaney escribi=F3= : >=20 > > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 15:22, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > >=20 > > I heard that if you install the new module-init-tools package in > > /sbin that you would be able to boot old kernels. Is that true? >=20 > It works here. > i've a debian distro, i apt-get'ed module-init-tools. Man modprobe says: >=20 > BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY > This version of insmod is for kernels 2.5.48 and above. If = it > detects a kernel with support for old-style modules (for which mu= ch of > the work was done in userspace), it will attempt to run insmod.mo= du- > tils in its place, so it is completely transparent to the user. >=20 > diego@estel:~$ ls -l /sbin/insmod* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5072 2003-06-15 12:27 /sbin/insmod > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 359 2003-03-06 15:50 /sbin/insmod_= ksymoops_clean > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95372 2003-03-06 15:50 /sbin/insmod.= modutils >=20 >=20 > Looking at the size, insmod.modutils seems the 2.4 insmod loader.=20 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i= n > 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/ --=20 Linux garaged 2.4.22-pre3-ac1 #5 SMP Wed Jul 9 07:01:52 CDT 2003 i686 Penti= um III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GS/ d-s:a-28C++ILHA+++P+L++>+++E---W++N*o--K-w++++O-M--V--PS+PEY--PGP++t5XR= tv++b++DI--D-G++e++h-r+y** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ gpg-key: http://garaged.homeip.net/gpg-key.txt --=-hSQeNGu7Wr07OACzVvv0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/FGBUsrSE6THXcZwRAlObAJ4k85ctWjEih73gDDCLLj4M8cGqBACfZIpp Chjbeu5Nbaom5GEIyuFMxBo= =+ge0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-hSQeNGu7Wr07OACzVvv0-- - 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/