Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available
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ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.3
patch-modutils-2.3.24.gz Patch from modutils 2.3.23 to 2.3.24 modutils-2.3.24.tar.gz Source tarball, includes RPM spec file modutils-2.3.24-1.src.rpm As above, in SRPM format modutils-2.3.24-1.i386.rpm Compiled with egcs-2.91.66, glibc 2.1.2 modutils-2.3.24-1.sparc.rpm Compiled for combined sparc 32/64
patch-2.4.0-prerelease.gz Adds persistent data and generic string
support to kernel 2.4.0-prerelease.
Changelog extract
* Correct check for empty generic string.
* Add alias usbdevfs usbcore.
Assuming no problems are found in modutils and assuming that kernel 2.4.0-prerelease is followed by the official 2.4 kernel then this version of modutils will be repackaged as modutils 2.4.0.
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Quoted 3 lines · Keith Owens
ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.3
modutils-2.3.24-1.src.rpm As above, in SRPM format
There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving its version when --version is used, should it? I'd rather expect exit(0) or _exit(0); for --version and --help.
(modprobe shows the same behaviour as depmod, insmod throws its version number and the usage information, I did not bother to check the other tools.)
$ /sbin/depmod --version
depmod version 2.3.24
Warning: You do not need a link from /etc/conf.modules to
/etc/modules.conf. The use of /etc/conf.modules is deprecated,
please remove /etc/conf.modules as soon as possible. Command
rm /etc/conf.modules
depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.18-ma2/modules.dep for writingSignature · 1 line
Matthias Andree
Quoted 2 lines · Matthias Andree
There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving its version when --version is used, should it?
Historical accident. I want to clean that up but it breaks existing behaviour; somewhere, somebody is bound to rely on depmod -V updating modules.dep at the same time. modutils 2.5 will clean up a lot of backwards compatibility crud, including this one. But you will not see modutils 2.5 until Linus rolls kernel 2.5 and we start the next development cycle.
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Quoted 2 lines · Matthias Andree
There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving its version when --version is used, should it?
Historical accident. I want to clean that up but it breaks existing behaviour; somewhere, somebody is bound to rely on depmod -V updating modules.dep at the same time. modutils 2.5 will clean up a lot of backwards compatibility crud, including this one. But you will not see modutils 2.5 until Linus rolls kernel 2.5 and we start the next development cycle.
Okay, backwards compatibility weighs a lot.
May I kindly ask you to give a note that -V does NOT terminate the program, but also comprises regular operation in --help and the man pages?
I can send in a patch if you want (that just changes the docs, but not the functionality).
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Quoted 6 lines · Keith Owens
Quoted 2 lines · Matthias Andree
There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving its version when --version is used, should it?
Historical accident. I want to clean that up but it breaks existing behaviour;
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Okay, backwards compatibility weighs a lot.
May I kindly ask you to give a note that -V does NOT terminate the program, but also comprises regular operation in --help and the man pages?
I can send in a patch if you want (that just changes the docs, but not the functionality).
Don't bother. It will change in 2.5 anyway, I can live with the odd query until then. If you really want to get only the version number then this will work for modutils 2.x for x >= 3.
(/sbin/depmod -V -n | head -1) 2>/dev/null
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I can send in a patch if you want (that just changes the docs, but not the functionality).
Don't bother. It will change in 2.5 anyway, I can live with the odd query until then. If you really want to get only the version number then this will work for modutils 2.x for x >= 3.
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/sbin/depmod-V -n | head -1) 2>/dev/null
I was just thinking to write -V "output version in addition to normal operation" in --help, nothing bigger than like 5 minutes.
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