> On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 02:32:10PM +0100, Clifford Wolf wrote:
>
> > even if there are no changes - shouldn't we at least copy the archive
> > "modutils-2.1.121.tar.gz" to "modutils-2.2.0.tar.gz" ???
>
> There _are_ changes due, if anyone can find out who the maintainer is. I had a
> fix up for kerneld to make it work with 2.0.x kernels (useful if you dual-boot
> 2.0 / 2.2, and of course 2.2 doesn't use kerneld any more).
FWIW, I reported a one-line fix to Richard Henderson in
modutils-2.1.current regarding overstatement of the module code size by one
longword for 2.0 kernels. This results in invalid paging requests in said
kernels when loading modules whose actual code size ends right next to (or
on) a page boundary (eg, the extra 4 bytes crosses a page boundary).
-bp
-- B. James Phillippe . bryan@terran.org Software Engineer, WGT Inc. . http://www.terran.org/~bryan
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