On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, John Haxby wrote:

> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>> Not really necessary. The kernel module utilities have a provision that
>> enables you to override the "original" kernel modules. Just put your
>> "newer" kernel modules somewhere in:
>>
>>   /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/
>>
>> do a "depmod -a" and those modules should shadow the ones in the kernel
>> tree.
>>
> Aaah!   That's worth knowing.   In which case what's stopping someone
> with a few spare minutes from providing updated ALSA RPMs for
> fedora-extras or livna?
>

I would guess that it would be useful then for the Alsa people to put in a
"make install-upgrade" option to make As it is it will install the updates
OVER the modules already there. But you would want it to install them in an
auxilliary update directory under the kenrel lib tree.


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