Hi all, I have a TV card in one of my boxen, which requires a kernel module to be built. I've got that all nicely scripted and so I can kick it off with relative ease.
The issue is detecting when it needs to be done. ie after a change in the running kernel. At the moment, it's detected by the TV guide running out of data and triggering an Icinga alert, which then causes me to investigate and rebuild the kernel module. I was hoping for something a little more automated. I'm envisioning something which starts on boot checking if the kernel has changed and if so, kicking off the kernel module rebuild script. The question is: how to detect if the kernel has changed. Off the top of my head I'm thinking: 1) lsmod | grep <driver> I conceed that doesn't actually indicate the kernel has changed, just that the kernel module is missing. However, so far, it being missing has consistent indicated a kernel change and rebuilding the driver on a false positive isn't really an issue 2) last | grep "system boot" | head -n 2; then diff the values Probably a bit of a faff to extract the necessary information and probably not wholey robust either. I thought that I'd just run it past the hive mind and see if anyone has any better ideas? Kind regards, Mike.
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