Announce: modutils 2.4.16 is available

Announce: modutils 2.4.16 is available

[Keith Owens]

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ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.4

modutils-2.4.16.tar.gz          Source tarball, includes RPM spec file
modutils-2.4.16-1.src.rpm       As above, in SRPM format
modutils-2.4.16-1.i386.rpm      Compiled with gcc 2.96 20000731,
                                glibc 2.2.2.
modutils-2.4.16-1.ia64.rpm	Compiled with gcc 2.96-ia64-20000731,
				glibc-2.2.3.
modutils-2.4.16-1.sparc.rpm	Compiled for combined 32/64 sparc, with gcc
				2.95.4, glibc-2.2.5.
patch-modutils-2.4.16.gz        Patch from modutils 2.4.15 to 2.4.16.

Changelog extract

	* Print 'Module loaded, with warnings' for people who cannot tell the
	  difference between warnings and errors.
	* Tell the user where to find more information about tainted modules.
	* Add configure option TAINT_URL, default http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s1-18.
	* Workaround for ppc64 symbols that contain _R in the name.  Guy Streeter.
	* Add alias char-major-200 vxspec.  Tigran Aivazian.
	* Add "look in syslog or dmesg output" to hints for failing modules.
	  Suggested by Georg Acher.
	* Environment variable UNAME_MACHINE overides the value of uname machine.


Note to vendors who supply Linux systems that contain non-GPL modules.

  I _strongly_ suggest that you configure and ship modutils with a URL
  that points to your support policy, e.g.

    TAINT_URL='http://www.some_vendor.com/linux/support/\#taint' configure

  see the INSTALL file.  Then your users will contact you with
  questions instead of bothering the linux-kernel list and being told
  to go away.  Your users will be happier and l-k readers will be
  happier.

Note to ppc32/64 and hppa32/64 users.

  I have added environment variable UNAME_MACHINE to try to overcome
  the problems of building 64 bit modules in a 32 bit environment and
  vice versa.  When set, this variable overrides the value of uname -m
  in modutils.  In particular, if you are building 64 bit modules on a
  32 bit version of the same platform, doing

    export UNAME_MACHINE=ppc64 (or hppa64)

  should let modules_install handle the modules.  It has had limited
  testing, let me know if it does not work.

  UNAME_MACHINE only works for 32/64 bit versions of the build machine,
  and only when modutils was configured with --enable-combined-XXX.

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