Module Init Tools 3.5

[willimm]

And there is now a Module Init Tools 3.5. Again, upgrade or not?

[dnicholson@…]

This one we may want to be more cautious with. There was a major overhaul in the code to convert modules.dep and friends into a binary format to speed up modprobe (it reads these files every it's run). I would expect that there will be a couple bugs that shake out of there, which will result in another patch release. Otherwise, I'd like to see someone exercise it for a while.

Unfortunately, there's no ChangeLog/NEWS info, but here's the commit log:

​http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/kernel/module-init-tools/module-init-tools.git;a=summary

[randy@…]

Replying to dnicholson@linuxfromscratch.org:

This one we may want to be more cautious with.

I agree. Let's defer on this one. Anyone else have any other input?

[Matthew Burgess]

Fixed in r8764.