Bug#219769: libc6-2.3.2.ds1-10 on ARM breaks modutils

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 12:18:23AM +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 21:14, Major A wrote:
> > After upgrading libc6 on an ARM-based handheld running "sarge" to
> > "sid", all programs in modutils (lsmod, for instance), issue an error
> > "lsmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented" and exit when run as
> > root. When run as non-root, lsmod runs expected, the other commands
> > (modprobe, insmod) fail with the QM_MODULES error message.
> 
> Argh!  It seems that the definition of __NR_query_module has been
> removed from <asm/unistd.h> in kernel 2.6.  So, glibc is just providing
> a stub for that function which simply returns ENOSYS.  The reason lsmod
> works as non-root is that it falls back to parsing /proc/modules in that
> case.

I'm already fixing this for ia64 in linux-kernel-headers.  Mind doing
the same for ARM?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer