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SubjectRe: [PATCH] modules_install must not remove existing modules
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On Wednesday 05 April 2006 23:52, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Can this be re-worked to ensure that it clears the target directory
> the *first* time? It would suck mightily if a previous build of 2.6.17-rc2
> left a net_foo.ko lying around to get insmod'ed by accident (consider the
> case of CONFIG_NETFOO=m getting changed to y or n, and other possible
> horkage. Module versioning will catch some, but not all, of this crap....)

We could wipe away everything in the non-external modules_install case (not
only everything below kernel/ as is done now). The problem here is that
different external modules_install calls into the same dir conflict.

Andreas
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