Good question. I've rebuilt my kernel many times (essentially, at least
once for every stable version from 2.0.36 to 2.2.14) and I never did (or
needed to do) anything with that file, but I've always wondered what it's
for. However, I have enough memory (256Meg) that I always build a
monolithic kernel, so I don't really mess with modules at all exept for the
ones built for IP masqing.
-- Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:59 AM
Subject: What uses /boot/module-info?
> At least on RedHat 6.0, there is a file:
>
> /boot/module-info-<KERNEL_VERSION>
>
> linked to by symbolic link /boot/module-info. During boot, sysinit
> adjusts the link (along with that for System.map) based on uname -r if
> it contains no "-", and in a more complicated fashion on /proc/version
> otherwise. Unless I've screwed up (likely) building a new kernel from
> source (through modules_install) doesn't create module-info. I'm
> wondering what would care. The only reference I can find in the
> kernel sources is a comment in the Makefile for ksymoops about how
> RedHat users may want to make the default directory in which to look
> for modules be that name (and it really seems to be looking for a
> directory or a .o rather than this text file). Noting in the modutils
> source, including the rh-patch, mentions it.
>
> Does anyone know what uses this file and where it comes from?
>
> Bill
>
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