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To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Oops in register_chrdev, what did I do?
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Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> writes:

>> The problem I see is that a modules contain information about certain
>> compiler flags used, e.g. -mregparm, but insmod still attempts to load
>> them even they do not match the kernel.  This is independent of what
>> build system you used.
>
> that is odd, which modutils is that ? Afaik insmod is supposed to just
> refuse (and I've seen it do that as well)

A little embarrassing perhaps, but it was quite old.  I'm upgrading to
3.0.

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