Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:52:18 -0500 (EST) | From | linux-os <> | Subject | Re: insmod module-loading errors, Linux-2.6.9 |
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On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Colin Leroy wrote:
> On 08 Nov 2004 at 10h11, linux-os wrote: > > Hi, > >> Please restore the "-f" parameter passed to insmod. It >> was there for a very good reason. This allows one >> who encounters the module-loading error while installing >> the kernel to force the module loading. In this way, the >> correct modules are used to generate the new `initrd` image. > > Wouldn't using the EXTRAVERSION field save you from such hassles? > > -- > Colin >
There are certainly work-arounds for problems that shouldn't exist at all. So, every time I do something to a kernel, I have to change whatever the EXTRAVERSION field is? Then, when a customer demands that the kernel version be exactly the same that was shipped with Fedora or whatever, I'm screwed.
They simply should not have removed the "-f" option of insmod. It's just that simple. This option allowed transient (possible) incompatibilities so that one could be productive and not spend a whole day reinstalling from a distribution CD because the new modules wouldn't work because somebody decided that their special VERMAGIC_STRING was so ")@*&#$%)" important that they preempted my work. Don't get me started....
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