Dear Rusty,
IMHO, try_old_version can tell kernel release better with this
patch, don't you? ;->
- Louis
diff -Nur module-init-tools-0.9.6/backwards_compat.c
module-init-tools-0.9.6-lz1/backwards_compat.c
--- module-init-tools-0.9.6/backwards_compat.c 2002-12-21
12:31:11.000000000 +0800
+++ module-init-tools-0.9.6-lz1/backwards_compat.c 2002-12-28
13:29:50.000000000 +0800
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/utsname.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>
@@ -59,10 +60,14 @@
static void try_old_version(const char *progname, char *argv[])
{
struct stat buf;
- /* 2.2 and 2.4 have a syscall. 2.0 doesn't, but does have
- /proc/ksyms */
+ struct utsname un;
+
+ uname(&un);
+
+ /* 2.2 and 2.4 have a syscall. 2.0 doesn't, so we compare
+ release */
if (query_module(NULL, 0, NULL, 0, NULL) == 0
- || stat("/proc/ksyms", &buf) == 0)
+ || strncmp("2.0", un.release, 3) == 0)
exec_old(progname, argv);
}
#else /* CONFIG_NO_BACKWARDS_COMPAT */
-
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