Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > Once upon a time, I heard Viktor Rosenfeld say > > > (**) I never understood why "dpkg -i" bitches about the fact that you > > install the same kernel version as the currently running kernel. It > > justifies it with possible confusion in /lib/modules/<version>, but > > that's what I don't get. Newly compiled modules will overwrite the old, > > and older kernel modules should still load perfectly, because they're > > for the same kernel-version. What's the big deal then? > Let's say you turn off apm, and remove some modules. If your old module with > apm get loaded, ummm, I don't what's going to happen. May be nothing serious > would happen.
I've never tried it before (and I am to lazy to compile a new kernel, just to try it out), but I think modprobe/insmod would complain about unresolved references and ... and that would be it. MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/
