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Updated module utilities: modules-1.1.87.tar.gz
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Feb 5 08:24:26 1995
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 13:54:33 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: bj0rn@blox.se (Bjorn Ekwall)
Subject: Updated module utilities: modules-1.1.87.tar.gz
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: Linux, kernel, modules, insmod
Organization: ?
Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.system
Replacement for "modules-1.1.85" released: "modules-1.1.87.tar.gz"
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An updated version of the utilities for Linux loadable modules
has been uploaded in the incoming directories at tsx-11.mit.edu
and sunsite.unc.edu. It will probably be moved to its rightful
place quite soon...
The name of the new release is "modules-1.1.87.tar.gz",
and the size is 86172 bytes.
Most _real_ bugs (both of them :-) ) in the previous version:
"modules-1.1.85.tar.gz" have been fixed.
*
* There have been some posts indicating that you should _not_
* enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, since that should have been the
* reason for some Makefile problems.
*
* These posts are _not_ correct! The problems were due to a
* Makefile problem alone, and linux-1.1.87 and later corrected
* the "ifdef MODULES" omission in "drivers/char/Makefile".
*
As an extra bonus insmod can now also initialize character pointers
as well as integers. It is also possible to initialize arrays
of integers and/or character pointers:
insmod module.o symbol=int1,int2,string1,int3
Use this feature with extra care, since you _could_ overwrite
values that you really didn't intend to!
See the insmod manual page for more information.
Note that you can now initialize the struct device in a net driver...
It's not exactly like the lilo-parameters, but this might be implemented
in some future release (no promises though).
Bjorn Ekwall == bj0rn@blox.se
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