From: bj0rn@blox.se (Bjorn Ekwall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: New release of module support utilities
Date: 11 Jun 1995 04:10:56 -0500
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Sender: wirzeniu@rose.uthscsa.edu
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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Keywords: modules, insmod, kernel daemons, kernel, Linux

Finally, a new release of the utilities for kernel loadable modules is out.
The new package is now available at your favourite ftp sites, in the same
directory as your linux-1.2.* kernel sources.
The package is called "modules-1.2.8.tar.gz".

PLEASE note that you should _not_ apply the "ftape" patches for insmod
on the insmod included in "modules-1.2.8.tar.gz"!  Really!!!


Notable changes in the module utilities from the "modules-1.1.87" release:

- The bss bugs in insmod are fixed (and checked, and re-checked, and...)

- Insmod can now also load unversioned modules into a versioned kernel.

- Insmod can load both ELF and a.out modules into both ELF or a.out kernels.

- Depmod has an extended configuration file, where alias names for
  modules can be defined, as well as default options for modules.


For your amusement, we have included an _optional_ sub-package, called
"kerneld".  Although it is meant for v1.3 (due Real Soon Now), we would
really be interested in your experiencences with "kerneld", despite of
this warning about "bleeding edge"...

In short, we have attempted to make the support of loadable modules
completely invisible for a user, so that a kernel will look like as
if it had been configured with "everything", when in fact most things
are supplied as kernel loadable modules.

The new module utilities are "kerneld-aware", and you can have _all_
your favourite modules handled by putting the modules in /lib/modules/*
running "depmod -a" and perhaps modify _one_ configuration file.


Bjorn Ekwall <bj0rn@blox.se> and Jacques Gelinas <jack@solucorp.qc.ca>

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