Re: module-init-tools breaks kallsyms

SL Baur (steve@kbuxd.necst.nec.co.jp)
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:50:38 +0900


Skip Ford writes on lkml:

> Install of module-init-tools moves the old tools to *.old but it
> doesn't address kallsyms. In the case of kallsyms being a link to
> insmod, it breaks. Since the new insmod is supposed to call
> insmod.old when appropriate, I'm not sure why it breaks. But it
> doesn't work here.

> To successfully compile a kernel < 2.5.47-bk2 after
> module-init-tools installation, with kallsyms being a symlink, you
> need to link it to insmod.old instead.

I've made a merged rpm of modutils and module-init-tools that deals
with this and sent it to Rusty.

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