Subject: Re: [PATCH] modutils 2.3.20 and beyond
To: david@linux.com (David Ford)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 02:11:49 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (LKML),
        jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org (Jeff V. Merkey)
In-Reply-To: <3A21A720.75A4EEB1@linux.com> from "David Ford" at Nov 26, 2000 04:13:20 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> > Anaconda will barf and require over 850+ changes to the scripts without
> > it.  If you look at the patch, you will note that it's a silent switch
> > that's only there to avoid a noisy error message from depmod.  It
> > actually does nothing other than set a flag that also does nothing.
> > -m simply maps to -F.
> 
> It's still a bad precedent.  Anaconda should have been written correctly in
> the first place.

I don't know if its an Anaconda issue or a limitation in the tools. Keith is
the modutils maintainer and its up to the Anaconda hackers to prove to him that
he has a problem so I think he is absolutely right in refusing to change it
until that is proven

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