Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270090AbTGPC5C (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:57:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270092AbTGPC5C (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:57:02 -0400 Received: from adsl-216-103-111-100.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([216.103.111.100]:7860 "EHLO www.piet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270090AbTGPC47 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:56:59 -0400 Subject: Re: modules problems with 2.6.0 (module-init-tools-0.9.12) From: Piet Delaney To: Diego Calleja =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Garc=EDa?= Cc: rddunlap@osdl.org, fsanchez@mail.usfq.edu.ec, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, piet 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 15 Jul 2003 20:11:33 -0700 Message-Id: <1058325093.18801.1224.camel@www.piet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2154 Lines: 56 On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 17:12, Diego Calleja Garc?a wrote: > El 15 Jul 2003 16:53:12 -0700 Piet Delaney escribi?: > > > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 15:22, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > > > 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? > > It works here. > i've a debian distro, i apt-get'ed module-init-tools. Man modprobe says: > > 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 much of > the work was done in userspace), it will attempt to run insmod.modu- > tils in its place, so it is completely transparent to the user. > > 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 Funny, I don't see insmod.modutils installed in /usr/local/sbin: ls -l /usr/local/sbin/insmod* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28834 Jul 9 14:36 /usr/local/sbin/insmod -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 461564 Jul 9 14:36 /usr/local/sbin/insmod.static I also didn't find insmod.modutils in the module-init-tools-0.9.12 src: [root@www src]# find module-init-tools-0.9.12 -name "*insmod*" -print module-init-tools-0.9.12/doc/insmod.sgml module-init-tools-0.9.12/insmod.c module-init-tools-0.9.12/insmod.8 module-init-tools-0.9.12/.deps/insmod.Po module-init-tools-0.9.12/insmod.o module-init-tools-0.9.12/insmod module-init-tools-0.9.12/insmod.static [root@www src]# > > > Looking at the size, insmod.modutils seems the 2.4 insmod loader. I think I missed something. -- piet@www.piet.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/