Re: general module gottcha...

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Iain Sandoe wrote:

Wed, Jul 12, 2000, Derek Homeier wrote:

quoted

Ay, that may be the rub! I think I've still seen 'dmasound.o' when I did
a lsmod. I did not change conf.modules, that's for sure.
I have no idea, though, where I might have got the old dmasound.o from,
because I made a 'mrproper' before the last compiles.

This is because (as things stand) modules_install does *not* remove un-built
modules - just overwrites rebuilt ones with the new versions...

This is probably the only sensible behaviour (gurus?)...

I am (usually) paranoid and do a:
 rm -rf /lib/modules/kernel-version-i'm-working-on

before doing modules_install :-)

I was quite aware of that, and recreated the modules dir several times,
also because I built three versions in a series and moved the corresponding
modules to a different place. I may have missed something there, though.

quoted

I can imagine that
would have messed up everything a bit, though I'm wondering how the
module got loaded with the wrong kernel version at all...

Hmmm.. it's probably a little too tolerant - I have module versioning
switched on in all my compiles and that is quite successful at whining when
you've forgotten to delete/update something.

Good idea! Where do you enable that?

Cheers,
							Derek


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