Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Aug 2000 08:33:42 -0500 (CDT) | From | Thomas Molina <> | Subject | Re: modutils and 2.4.0-test6-pre1 |
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On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 07:36:27 -0500 (CDT), > Thomas Molina <tmolina@home.com> wrote: > >I have a (probably) dumb question here. Under the new scheme am I going > >to run into difficulties? I do the following in rc.sysinit: > > > >mver=`uname -r` > >rm -rf /lib/modules/default > >ln -sf /lib/modules/$mver /lib/modules/default > >INITLOG_ARGS= action "Finding module dependencies" depmod -a > > > >and in /etc/modules.conf I have stuff similar to the following: > > > >path[misc]=/lib/modules/default > > /lib/modules/default -> /lib/modules/`uname -r` so modutils will scan > all of /lib/modules/`uname -r`. That includes the new build symlink so > you will end up treating all of /usr/src/linux (or wherever) as modules, > not nice.
So, in other words the above path in modules.conf should read:
path[misc]=/lib/modules/default/misc?
That would seem reasonable to me. I usually maintain at least two development trees and two stable trees that I can switch between during boot. Since there are some significant differences between 2.2 and 2.4 this flexibility is fairly important to me. Thanks.
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