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modutils for Debian GNU/Linux
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With the introduction of kmod in the 2.1 kernels a couple of things have
changed for kernel modules:
* kerneld is no longer started, since the kernel now has its own kmod thread
* persistant module storage is no longer available, since this was done
entirely by kerneld
* request-route support is gone (the Debian package had dropped this support
a lot earlier). Use diald instead.
* Automatic unloading of modules is no longer done by kerneld. Instead we use
a new little daemon called modclean.
With 2.3 a couple of new changes have been made:
* a list of kernel symbols is now kept in /var/log/ksymoops.
Some notes about how I packaged the modutils:
- I modified depmod and modprobe so they print the pathlist only when
-v is given.
- kerneld is compiled without any extensions
more information.
- only 2.x.x kernels are supported
- if you want to compile this package, you must have:
a) binutils 2.7.0.9 or later
b) kernel includes from a 2.1 kernel (the newer the better).
c) a C compiler (obviously)
About (machine-dependent) conf.modules:
Different architectures and machine types can have different drivers
in the kernel, and thus have different modules available. Since
version 2.1.85-6, modutils has support for this. This support has been
redone in 2.1.85-12 when update-modules was introduced. See the
manpage for update-modules for all the information.
Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>, Mon May 1 14:32:02 CEST 2000
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