>> uh...yeah...but that hasn't changed for almost ten years.  i almost
>> think we have a better chance of libc's major changing.  :)
>
>Like when jason added sy_flags some time for the smp safe syscall flag in 2001.

damn, you're right.  what the *@#$ was i looking at, then?

>>>I think you are complaning about the wrong thing. The problem I see is that
>>>the version number is not related (well maybe, is it) to the kernel ABI for
>>>release branches, while its most certainly is for current/HEAD.
>>
>> ultimately, i was just looking for a way to make the kernel shut up
>> and load the module.  -f seems to do the job, though it's not as quiet
>> as loading a module used to be.
>
>Add modload -q(uiet) ?

i wonder...

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