make modules_install: a vote for user friendliness
This might be going to the wrong list, but I don't think I subscribe to debian-devel. Maybe it actually goes to the linux kernel people. Anyway: Shouldn't make modules_install 1) automatically purge the /lib/modules/* tree before installing? 2) update /etc/modules and conf.modules? I recompiled my kernel yesterday, and several modules became directly part of the kernel, as I had intended. But kerneld still tried to load the old modules on boot, causing lots of undefined symbol errors. And the presence of some of those modules in the /etc/ files caused a few errors, also. It wasn't a terrible problem, because I knew where to look to fix things. But in general, wouldn't it make more sense to have those things taken care of, so those who don't know might have a clue? Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~lowe/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: make modules_install: a vote for user friendliness
Will == Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will This might be going to the wrong list, but I don't think I Will subscribe to debian-devel. Maybe it actually goes to the Will linux kernel people. Anyway: Will Shouldn't make modules_install 1) automatically purge the Will /lib/modules/* tree before installing? 2) update Will /etc/modules and conf.modules? If you use the 'kernel-package' Debian package, things will work exactly this way. You just run make menuconfig/config/xconfig/whatever, and then run: make-kpkg --revision whatever.1.0 kernel_image (you can replace 'whatever' with whatever ;) and voila! you'll have a new .deb package of your kernel and modules and other assorted goodies in /usr/src. :) -- Brought to you by the letters S and B and the number 5. Oh, all right, Uncle Ulty REALLY wants you to do his portrait. -- FF6 Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
