Re: modutils that works with 2.4 and 2.5?
Muli Ben-Yehuda (mulix@mulix.org)
Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:25:16 +0200
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:12:03AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 23:00, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:52:23AM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > > Does such a thing exist?
> > >
> > > I would like to help out testing 2.5, but I need to still use 2.4 as
> > > well.
> >
> > Rusty's modutils package maintains the old modutils binaries and falls
> > back to them if it discovers that you're running a 2.4 system.
>
> Does it do this discovery at install time, or at each boot?
Each invocation, I suppose. Doesn't make much sense otherwise.
see for example lsmod.c, main() -> try_old_version().
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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