about 2.1.18 and modules

Richard Henderson (richard@atheist.tamu.edu)
Mon, 30 Dec 1996 10:38:45 -0600 (CST)

As many have you have already noticed, the modules subsystem
has been largely reworked in 2.1.18. This does mean a new
modutils distribution is needed, as the entire system call
interface changed so the 2.1.13 modutils will not even come
close to working.

Unfortunately for me, the last time I showed the nascent
rewrite to Linus, and other interested parties, he liked it
so much he incorporated it all right then.

This does mean that functionality outside of the main has not
yet received the attention it deserves. This primarily seems
to have affected modversions and depmod.

So! There exists a snapshot of a new modutils that contains
a new insmod that will work with 2.1.18 that could be, um,
stress tested by those that do not need or can temporarily
do without modversions or depmod. The rest of you will
simply have to be patient with 2.1.17 while I attempt to
catch up.

But for those who would like to play, Thursday's version is
located at

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/alphabits/modutils-961226.tar.gz

Though I'll try and have a new version out there this afternoon,
as I believe there was one trivial bug in the i386 support
that has since been fixed.

r~