Re: modutils snapshot 970104

Roy P. Turner (roypt@dopamine.com)
Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:33:57 -0600


>Ok, one more time.
>
> -- Compilation without CONFIG_MODVERIONS is fixed. You'll
> want to make mrproper before rebuilding.
>
> -- SCSI modules should work again.
>
> -- Thanks to Jacques Gelinas, insmod works on 2.0.x again.
>
> -- An idea by Olaf Titz to solve the kerneld races recently
> discussed is in.
>
> -- The stupid makefile bits in genksyms are fixed.
>
>Go and find it at
>
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/alphabits/modutils-970104.tar.gz
>
>and let me know if anything still breaks.
>
>
>r~

Compiled fine. Booted fine, except depmod complained about the unresolved
symbols in the appletalk module.
The problem I found was kerneld didn't seem to unload unused modules.
'insmod -k some-module' and it just stays there until you manually 'rmmod'
it. Same if kerneld loaded the module itself. Also had a problem loading
the aha152x.o module (complained about invalid options), and the scsi_mod.o
module would never unload even manually (complained about device or
resource being busy). Went back to 2.1.17 and modules-2.1.13. and
everything returned to normal. This was on an x86 system. Thanks.

Roy