Hi Lucas, This time I need to apologize for my late reply. Prepping a launch and demo's took it's toll and had priority. >> The problem was solved with the following lazy patch, which not only makes a zero'd string but also mangles the vermagic keyword, >> confirming the theory. However I think there must be a better solution, just cannot think of it now as it is time for me to go to sleep. > > Humn... mangling the key is not the right thing to do. We could just > remove the entire key-value pair. kernel as well as other tools will > happily ignore '\0' between the strings. Well I did say the patch was not perfect ;) Your approach seems a lot better. >Please take a look in git head: >http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git;a=commit;h=a4578669ca25ef6ede96bf4262821bcb07c8065c > >I'll roll out a new release soon, probably by the end of this week. I am building it now. If the issue somehow is not fixed I will ping you about it, but this looks like it should do it. Thanks! Philippe-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html