Re: Custom kernel version and depmod

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Wed, 22 May 2002 09:47:56 +1000


On Wed, 22 May 2002 01:30:36 +0200,
"Svein E. Seldal" <Svein.Seldal@edcom.no> wrote:
>Anyway, my question was focused on depmod and kernel module version system
>and not the driver itself.

depmod/insmod require a kernel version number. If you ship a binary
compiled against 2.4.x and the user wants to install it with kernel
2.4.y they can force the load with insmod -f. Don't be surprised if
the kernel then blows up. Bug reports from forced module loads will be
ignored.

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