Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Gruenbacher <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] modules_install must not remove existing modules | Date | Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:06:30 +0200 |
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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.
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