On Thursday 09 June 2011 11:52:42 Ignas Anikevicius wrote: > Hello list, > > I was wondering if it is possible to have a tool with which it would be > possible to have external modules installed for _all_ kernel versions in > my computer. Now I am using 2.6.38 kernel, but would like to try 2.6.39 > and the thing is that I would like to have tp_smapi and phc-intel > modules in both kernels. Is it possible to have it without any serious > hacking? > > I have only 3 ideas how I could achieve that: > * Making a custom ebuild, which would build the modules, but install > itself as a different package depending on the kernel version (eg > tp_smapi-2.6.39-gentoo)? > * Making a custom ebuild, which would build the modules for all kernel > versions in one go... (is this possible?) > * patching the gentoo-sources each time. > > Is any of these solutions sensible? > > Cheers, > Ignas
why not emerging them several times with linux pointing to the different kernels? I that does not work: ebuild .... unpack ebuild .... compile ebuild .... install cp .ko from image directory to modules directory depmod -ae -- #163933
