[Info-vax] ODS5 on Linux

[Paul Sture]

On Tue, 15 May 2012 04:04:27 +0100, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:

> n Mon, 2012-05-14 at 22:56 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> >> If not he is violation of the GPL license!
>> >
>> > Actually, no he isn't. As he wrote the code, he's perfectly entitled
>> to
>> > put restrictions on his work.
>> 
>> No - he is not, because he is using somebody else's code and has to
>> comply with their license.
>> 
>> A driver without a shim is linked with the kernel.
> 
> A module isn't necessarily linked into the kernel. It's loaded into
> memory and gets used for whatever purposes the user requires it for.


http://www.vms2linux.de/ods5fs-overview.html

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The ods5 file system comes as a kernel module and is usually loaded with

# insmod path-to/ods5.ko
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What is insmod?

http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl8_insmod.htm

DESCRIPTION

insmod installs a loadable module in the running kernel. 

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Paul Sture