Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 3 Jan 2001 12:40:05 +0100 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available |
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On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de> wrote: > >There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving > >its version when --version is used, should it? > > Historical accident. I want to clean that up but it breaks existing > behaviour; somewhere, somebody is bound to rely on depmod -V updating > modules.dep at the same time. modutils 2.5 will clean up a lot of > backwards compatibility crud, including this one. But you will not see > modutils 2.5 until Linus rolls kernel 2.5 and we start the next > development cycle.
Okay, backwards compatibility weighs a lot.
May I kindly ask you to give a note that -V does NOT terminate the program, but also comprises regular operation in --help and the man pages?
I can send in a patch if you want (that just changes the docs, but not the functionality).
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