Re: cross-depmod?

[Rusty Russell]

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 01:42, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> I assume the problem arises from the fact that depmod are only capable of
> reading elf files for the host it is compiled for.
> OK, took a look at depmod.
> It handles both 32 and 64 bit but assumes same endian.
> 
> Rusty: Would it make sense to extend module-init-tools to support
> endian as specified in elf file?

Frankly, yes.

In my opinion, it makes even more sense for modprobe to do the work
itself, and cache the info in /lib/modules/`uname
-r`/modules.{dep,alias,symtab}.

I was always planning on doing this after we got rid of the modules.map
files, but that never happened due to reluctance from other people to
transition, and I didn't fight them.

Cheers,
Rusty.
-- 
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