[ale] genksyms

[Chris Ricker]

On  8 Sep, Chris Ness wrote:
> Has somebody been messing around with genksyms while I wasn't looking?

Always possible; kernel developers are pretty wiley like that ;-).

> I tried to compile 2.1.54 this morning and it is kicking back that my
> genksyms doesn't have a -f flag. Of course genksyms doesn't have a -v
> and the date is suspect (6/12/96) , but the file length is 19652.
> Is there a newer version and where do I look? (I have tried
> ftp.cc.gatech and sunsite, but I am not looking in the right directories
> yet.)

I'd say you're definitely out of date.  Genksysm is part of modutils. 
Grab ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/alphabits/modutils/modutils-2.1.42.tar.gz
and you should be all set.

later,
chris

Who notes that his genksyms doesn't have an -f flag either, but it
works anyway with 2.1.54/pre2.1.55 ;-).

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Chris Ricker                                 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu