Re: Must modules be GPL'ed? (fwd)

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu)
Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:29:09 -0400


Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 03:40:26 -0700
From: Mark Hamstra <mhamstra@wolfenet.com>

> At least in theory, the ksyms.c interface attempts to be much less fluid
> that than rest of the kernel interfaces, so there is some prayer of a
> chance that a module which is distributed versus one particular kernel
> release will continue to work with future kernel releases.

How exactly does one use one of these non-source modules in a more recent
kernel than that for which it was originally compiled?

You just load it using insmod. If it was compiled using modversions, as
long as the header files haven't changed, it'll just work. Or you can
use the -f option.

- Ted