[BusyBox] old insmod support.

[Terje Kvernes]

Erik Andersen <andersen at codepoet.org> writes:

> On Mon Jul 21, 2003 at 12:27:04AM +0200, Terje Kvernes wrote:
>
> > anyhow, while doing this I came across the following from
> > modutils/Config.in:
> > 
> > config CONFIG_FEATURE_OLD_MODULE_INTERFACE
> >         bool "  Support older (pre 2.1) Linux kernels"
> >         default n
> >         depends on CONFIG_INSMOD
> > 
> > didn't we just loose support for 2.0 kernels?  this option will
> > then be rather defunct, right?
> 
> That is correct.  Also busybox modutils really needs to be updated
> to support v 2.6 kernels as well.  

  it would be great to get 2.6 support, especially if the kernel
  manages to shrink a little more before 2.6.0.  even with the option
  of slimming down features, the kernel itself gets large these days.
  550K+ for just a scheduler seems a bit steep still.

> Bastian Blank has submitted some patches to do this (~26 May 2003),
> but I have not yet taken the time to review these changes, merge in
> the important things from the current busybox modutils, and then
> throughtly test the result...

  I for one will be happy to test .ko-support.
 
> I would like to get that done before the final 1.0.0 release,

  being able to say "supports 2.6" would be nice, yeah.  whatever
  happens though, the front page of busybox.net needs some minor
  tweaking with regards to pre*-release dates.  :-)

-- 
Terje