Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 07:46:31 -0500 (EST)
From: linux-os <linux-os@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
cc: Colin Leroy <colin.lkml@colino.net>,
       Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: insmod module-loading errors, Linux-2.6.9 
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On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:52:18 EST, linux-os said:
>
>> There are certainly work-arounds for problems that shouldn't
>> exist at all. So, every time I do something to a kernel, I
>> have to change whatever the EXTRAVERSION field is?  Then, when
>> a customer demands that the kernel version be exactly the
>> same that was shipped with Fedora or whatever, I'm screwed.
>
> If you didn't have the foresight to keep that kernel version around,
> there isn't much we can do to help you.  Yes, this may mean you have
> a big bunch of /usr/src/linux-2.6.* directories.
>

Wrong. Whoever put the module-loading code INSIDE the kernel,
for POLITICAL reasons, created a new POLICY.

[SNIPPED...]


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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