Announce: modutils 2.3.23 is available

From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Date: Sat Dec 16 2000 - 18:45:41 EST


ftp://ftp.>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.3

patch-modutils-2.3.23.gz Patch from modutils 2.3.22 to 2.3.23
modutils-2.3.23.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file
modutils-2.3.23-1.src.rpm As above, in SRPM format
modutils-2.3.23-1.i386.rpm Compiled with egcs-2.91.66, glibc 2.1.2
modutils-2.3.23-1.sparc.rpm Compiled for combined sparc 32/64
patch-2.4.0-test13-pre2.gz Adds persistent data and generic string
                                support to kernel 2.4.0-test13-pre2.

Changelog extract

        * Correct error path in rmmod.c. Andrew Morton.
        * Include latest Redhat alias list. Bill Nottingham.
        * hppa and hppa64 support. Richard Hirst.
        * Rework Makefiles for common 32/64 code. Keith Owens.
        * Add parportmap. Adam J Richter, Keith Owens.
        * Use GNU standards for cross compile. Maciej W. Rozycki.
        * Fix bound check on generic_string. Bug reported by Jaroslav Kysela,
          different patch by Keith Owens.
        * Warn instead of error for invalid MODULE_PARM. Keith Owens.

Notes:

(1) Persistent data is not on by default, you must run insmod with -e
    to support persistent data. If you are loading modules via
    modprobe and you want persistent data for all modules then you need

      insmod_opt -e ""

    in /etc/modules.conf.

(2) Current kernels do not support persistent data nor generic strings.
    You must apply patch-2.4.0-test13-pre2 to get kernel support for
    these features.

(3) No modules currently have persistent data. Module writers who
    want data to be persistent must make a one character change to
    their modules, read the above patch. Even then, the user must
    activate the persistent data, see note (1).

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