On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 02:54 +0100, Jon Masters wrote: > Hi folks, > > Several people have been asking what /sbin/weak-modules is/does, > mostly because it started script spewing the other day (sorry about > that!) on kernel updates. > > weak-modules is part of some driver updates work we're doing at Red > Hat and also involves folks working on Fedora Extras "kmod" kernel > packaging (see the packaging list archives). Essentially, this and > other scripts are part of a system for allowing compatible kernel > modules to continue to work after a kernel update occurs - > weak-modules is the part that figures out which kernels are compatible > with a driver. so someone is finally working on a real kernel abi check rather than just the quite bad "check modversions" check which was useless (both too many false positives and negatives)? Cool! -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
