This is a patch to the script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, for the point where
it starts to calculate the module dependencies. It uses the fact that I
build the kernels with the details of any patches and the level of SMP
support into the kernel name, so it shows when you type 'uname -v'. This
is done by creating a file '.name' in /usr/src/linux before building the
kernel. The contents are automatically used to tag the kernel if that file
exists.

 N.B. This patch is only really needed if you are using the older versions
of the kernels from this repository. If you are using the more up to date
versions (April 99 onwards) then you can get away with a much smaller
change to c.sysinit, as described in LinuxKernel.ps in the documentation
directory of the repository.

 I extract the relevant part of the name and look for a corresponding
subdirectory in /lib/modules during the bootstrap. If I don't find any
modules matching the name I have extracted then this probably means that
the kernel is not one that I have built and that it doesn't use this
feature to tag itself. In this case, I default to using the kernel version
number (uname -v) to determine the preferred module set to use.

 I give here the full startup script I use (rc.sysinit), plus just the
relevant parts extracted from it (rc.sysinit.patch). I leave it to you to
figure out where the patch goes in your version, since this script varies
quite a lot among different systems.

 This scheme is independent of RedHat (and of SuSE, Slackware, and the
price of cheese). It should be easy to make it work with any mix of
kernels that might happen to be on your machine.

 Tony Wildish. 26/01/99.