Re: Backwards compatible module symlinks

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Jon Masters wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> At first glance it doesn't seem very hard to do something like this
>> on kernel install:
>>
>> ln -s raid456.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/kernel/drivers/md/raid4.ko
>> ln -s raid456.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/kernel/drivers/md/raid5.ko
>> ln -s raid456.ko
>> /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/kernel/drivers/md/raid6.ko
>>
>> We could have left mkinitrd alone if the %post script for the kernel that
>> combined those three modules into one had done this.
> 
> Problem is that then, you're stuck doing that :-)

I figured after a few rounds of that you'd vacuum out the crud and
put it in mkinitrd where it belongs. :)

This would just allow some slack so the two didn't have to be released
in lockstep.

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