Re: the modutils-970116

Christopher Seawood (cseawood@qualcomm.com)
Sun, 19 Jan 1997 13:37:22 -0800 (PST)


On 19 Jan 1997, Regis Duchesne wrote:

> ik5pvx@penny.ik5pvx.ampr.org (Pierfrancesco Caci) writes:
>
> > the latest modutils do not work here. I have a plain 2.1.21 kernel (I
> > did not get warnings or errors, so I didn't feel the need to apply
> > Alan Cox's patches - may be this the point ?).
> > At boottime, insmod complains about an invalid module header and
> > suggest a newer modutils installation <grin>. 970104 works fine.
> >
> > >Jan 17 11:23:43 penny kernel: init_module: Invalid module header size.
> > >Jan 17 11:23:43 penny kernel: A new version of the modutils is likely needed.
>
> modutils-970104 is ok
> modutils-960116 and modutils-960118 don't work with the same error
>
modutils-970116 works fine here.
using linux-2.1.21 with the modutils-970116 patch
Alan's 2.1.21-patch2 and 21-stats-pages.patch

The last 2 patches can be retrieved from http://www.ecsnet.com/

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