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    SubjectRe: insmod module-loading errors, Linux-2.6.9
    On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

    > On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:52:18 EST, linux-os said:
    >
    >> There are certainly work-arounds for problems that shouldn't
    >> exist at all. So, every time I do something to a kernel, I
    >> have to change whatever the EXTRAVERSION field is? Then, when
    >> a customer demands that the kernel version be exactly the
    >> same that was shipped with Fedora or whatever, I'm screwed.
    >
    > If you didn't have the foresight to keep that kernel version around,
    > there isn't much we can do to help you. Yes, this may mean you have
    > a big bunch of /usr/src/linux-2.6.* directories.
    >

    Wrong. Whoever put the module-loading code INSIDE the kernel,
    for POLITICAL reasons, created a new POLICY.

    [SNIPPED...]



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