Re: Modules in 2.5.47-bk...

Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 04:53:39 +1100

In message <20021114105010.A22135@infradead.org> you write:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:53:50PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > The current method is that on "make install" the module-init-tools
> > move the old ones to xxx.old (if they exist), and do a backwards
> > compat check every time they start (and execvp xxx.old on every older
> > kernel). If it doesn't work for you, please report.
>
> Which breaks nicely every package manager database.

Yes. So don't package it like that if you care about backwards
compatibility.

The entire point is that the new code is simple enough that you can
quite simply fix it. And indeed, someone already has, while you were
whining.

Rusty.

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