Re: 2.4.0 and ZIP ppa

From: Douglas Gilbert (dgilbert@interlog.com)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 22:42:46 EST


Peter Christy wrote:
>
> OK, after a LOT of head scratching, I 've found the problem. At some point
> in its development, the name for the scsi sd module has changed from sd_mod
> to plain sd. Now I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere in the
> documentation, and its caught my system out totally.
>
> A quick fix has been to put "alias sd_mod sd" in modules.conf, but then I
> have to rem it out if I use the old kernel.
>
> Is there a better solution?

That 2.4 change was introduced about 2 months ago and it
is going to be put back to sd_mod.o because too many
tools assume that.

The author of that change (in a Makefile cleanup) said
that module name change was an oversight.

Doug Gilbert
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