Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270097AbTGPDT4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:19:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270098AbTGPDT4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:19:56 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:45959 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270097AbTGPDTy (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:19:54 -0400 Message-ID: <1376.4.4.25.4.1058326481.squirrel@www.osdl.org> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:34:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: modules problems with 2.6.0 (module-init-tools-0.9.12) From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: In-Reply-To: <1058325093.18801.1224.camel@www.piet.net> References: <3F147B8F.5000103@mail.usfq.edu.ec> <20030715152257.614d628b.rddunlap@osdl.org> <1058313192.21300.988.camel@www.piet.net> <20030716021210.56ea8360.diegocg@teleline.es> <1058325093.18801.1224.camel@www.piet.net> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: , , , X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2459 Lines: 64 > 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: I don't use the debian or RH packages. I just download and follow the instructions in the nice README file. I get insmod, insmod.old, depmod, depmod.old, etc. >> 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. I don't think that I have that one either. Could be a result of using one of the packages instead of building it from source. ~Randy - 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/