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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 18:01:44 +0100
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Inserting modules w/o version check
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"Mathew, Tisson K" wrote:
> 
> All ,
> 
> Can we enforce no version check for modules when they are inserted ( insmod

insmod -f

> ) ? If yes , can this be implemented in the module itself ?


no

but it's much nicer to make a "lazy compile" option so that if the
kernel 
doesn't match you compile a new module from source on demand....
It's not hard to do...

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven
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