[ILUG] insmod problem

[John P. Looney]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:55:13AM +0100, jac1 mentioned:
> I believe there is any way to make the kernel to force the loading of a module 
> that is not the same version as the kernel itself. I think it's 'insmod -f' 
> but i don't have a linux system at hand to check it out. This method has to be 
> used to load Lucent's winmodem module for linux (ltmodem.o) as it is an old 
> module.
> The method above may not be correct but there *is* a way to do it, i just 
> can't recall.

 This means that if the kernel has changed, you will ignore those changes,
and this will result in possible instability, data loss etc. There is a
reason that the name mangling is done.

 This is the equivilant of using a sledgehammer to put a plug into a wall,
without checking are the pins different, or more importantly if the local
voltage is 220v or 110v.

John

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