[plug] 3c509 Removal

raven at themaw.net raven at themaw.net
Sun May 23 11:25:24 WST 2004


On Sun, 23 May 2004, Michael wrote:

> On Sun, 23 May 2004 raven at themaw.net wrote:
> 
> > How is userspace handling of modules different in 2.6. It seems much the 
> > same to me apart from the required update to the module tools to handle 
> > the .ko extention. AFAIK the .ko is just the .o module with additional 
> > symbol version info. compiled in.
> > 
> > I must have missed something somehow as I've been working with 2.6 for 
> > months on RH9, FC1 and a little on Gentoo.
>  
> I just checked my 2.6 Gentoo (AMD64). Seems they have modified it enough 
> to continue using /etc/modules.conf. Mandrake 10 is not like that AFAIK 
> and uses /etc/modprobe.conf :)
>

Mmm. Yes the module tools do some things differently.

I'll check it out later.

Ian




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