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- Though insmod and genksyms represent entirely new code, it would be
- remiss not to acknowledge the work of those that came before.
-
- Bjorn Eckwall was responsible for the bulk of the actual code on these
- utilities. Unfortunately, the listed contact address, bj0rn@blox.se,
- appears to be inactive.
-
- Jacques Gelinas <jack@solucorp.qc.ca> originated the idea of modversions
- and kerneld, wrote depmod/modprobe, and has been maintaining the package
- since Bjorn vanished.
-
- The following list of ancillary credits is taken from the 2.1.13 source:
-
- insmod:
- * Originally by Anonymous (as far as I know...)
- * Linux version by Bas Laarhoven <bas@vimec.nl>
- * Modified by Jon Tombs.
- *
- * Support for transient and resident symbols
- * added by Bjorn Ekwall <bj0rn@blox.se> in June 1994 (C)
- *
- * Load map option conceived by Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
- *
- * Support for versioned kernels and symbols: Bjorn Ekwall in December 1994
- *
- * Merged in ksyms and rmmod in December 1994: Bjorn Ekwall
- *
- * Support for ELF modules: Bjorn Ekwall in December 1994 after having
- * mangled sources from, and been enlightened
- * and supported by Eric Youngdale <eric@aib.com>
- * (the kludges are all mine, don't blame Eric...)
- * Support for array initializers: Bjorn Ekwall in January 1995
- * Support for string initializers: Bjorn Ekwall in January 1995
- * Fixed major bug in a.out bss variable handling: March '95, Bas.
- * ELF fixes from H.J.Lu <hjl@nynexst.com>
- * Many ELF and other fixes from:
- * James Bottomley <J.E.J.Bottomley@damtp.cambridge.ac.uk>
- * Full support for MODPATH setting: Henrik Storner <storner@osiris.ping.dk>
- * Removed limitation of unversioned module vs. versioned kernel: Bjorn
- * Handle all combinations of ELF vs a.out kernels/modules: Bjorn
- * Added syslog error reporting with option "-s": Jacques Gelinas
- * Added MOD_AUTOCLEAN and option "-k" (for kerneld"): Bjorn and Jacques
- * mc68000: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- * More fixes (ELF SHN_UNDEF et al) by Andreas Schwab in February 1996
- * Added Sparc support: Eddie C. Dost <ecd@skynet.be>
- * Various improvements added by Hans Lermen <lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de>
-