[Mageia-dev] Report on my update from 1

Sun Apr 1 22:32:41 CEST 2012

On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:26:41 -0400, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+
+> 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 01/04/12 20:01 did gyre and gimble:
+>> On 1 April 2012 02:01, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>> - While dracut was running, it displayed plenty of libkmod: index_mm_open:
+>>> major version check fail: 65537 instead of 2953311319
+>>
+>> This is because kernel's module*bin are still generated by module-init-tools,
+>> not by kmod yet.
+>
+> Is this something we can ignore?
+
+I don't think so.  It's likely to generate a lot of
+bug reports, and isn't good for the image of Mageia.
+
+> FWIW, I've been running the kmod versions of things for a while. It's
+> very late in the cycle to consider flipping over to them rather than
+> module-init-tools, but I have made sure it's just a simple matter of
+> flipping a --with argument in kmod package if we do.
+
+I think it should be treated as a bug that needs to be
+fixed.  The sooner it gets done, the better the chance
+to find any problems and get them fixed before release
+freeze.
+
+Regards, Dave Hodgins
+