Re: Inserting modules w/o version check

Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com)
Tue, 09 Apr 2002 18:01:44 +0100


"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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