In message <Pine.GSO.4.33.0211251830050.6708-100000@sweetums.bluetronic.net> yo
u write:
> I would beg and plead with Linus to back that "crap" out of the kernel
> until such time as it has a snowball's chance of actually working ...
> anywhere. As it stands, 2.5 is now 100% unusable until modules works
> again.
Funny, other people seem to be using it.
> Kernel symbol versioning no longer exists.
That this patch has not yet been merged is crippling your development
efforts HOW, exactly? I was clearly mistaken when I thought that this
was low priority.
> Depmod no longer exists.
This is true. It doesn't need to for 0.7, but it's being reintroduced
in 0.8 for speed.
> Modprobe blindly loads a string of modules without even looking to see
> if it's already loaded.
Yes, this is a bug (and one not reported by anyone, either). Should
be fixed in 0.8.
> The command line args for modprobe are laughingly few (and none of
> the ones a redhat system needs to boot are implemented.)
Really? I don't recall seeing a bug report from you about it. My
Debian system boots fine.
> We're back to the flat module namespace (that patch of earth is now 100%
> salt...)
Um, we always had a flat module namespace. *ALWAYS*. We did put the
modules into subdirectories though. Due to Adam Richter's hard work,
with 0.8 we can restore this (basically for the benifit of mkinitrd,
which I also don't use).
> And every single object that forms a module will need to be
> retooled to adhere to the new module API
Really? How fascinating. I must admit that I hadn't noticed that.
Rusty.
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