From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 07:10:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 07:10:42 -0500 Received: from p3EE3CA16.dip.t-dialin.net ([62.227.202.22]:38660 "HELO emma1.emma.line.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 07:10:33 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 12:40:05 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Announce: modutils 2.3.24 is available Message-ID: <20010103124005.A5179@emma1.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010102191249.A4299@emma1.emma.line.org> <9779.978505495@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <9779.978505495@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>; from kaos@ocs.com.au on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 18:04:55 +1100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > Matthias Andree wrote: > >There's a problem. depmod should not try to do anything besides giving > >its version when --version is used, should it? > > Historical accident. I want to clean that up but it breaks existing > behaviour; somewhere, somebody is bound to rely on depmod -V updating > modules.dep at the same time. modutils 2.5 will clean up a lot of > backwards compatibility crud, including this one. But you will not see > modutils 2.5 until Linus rolls kernel 2.5 and we start the next > development cycle. Okay, backwards compatibility weighs a lot. May I kindly ask you to give a note that -V does NOT terminate the program, but also comprises regular operation in --help and the man pages? I can send in a patch if you want (that just changes the docs, but not the functionality). -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/