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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens), chris@chrullrich.de (Christian Ullrich),
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Subject: Re: insmod problem after modutils upgrading 
In-Reply-To: Message from Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 
   of "Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:13:29 -0000." <E146K9T-0003MT-00@the-village.bc.nu> 
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:32:27 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
> In-Reply-To: <4381.976745113@ocs3.ocs-net> from "Keith Owens" at Dec 14, 2000 0
>      ***9:05:13 AM
> > previously because nobody used those options.  Since these are bugs in
> > the modules and only a few modules are affected (less than 5 reported),
> > the fix is to correct the modules that have coding errors.

> That wont be happening in 2.2 until 2.2.19 which probably means 6 months.
> If this is your decision please make it abundantly clear that the new
> modutils are a 2.4 only package.

Why can't you make a fast 2.2.19 with _just_ safe bug fixes (as the fixing
of these module problems certainly is)?
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