On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 11:56 +0100, Phil Knirsch wrote: > Jon Masters wrote: > > This works fine, but means that, if we upgrade module-init-tools and > > there is a binary format change, then the system will be "slow" booting > > before depmod has been re-run again. I'm thinking about just doing a > > "depmod -a" on upgrade in such cases in the future...is there a problem > > with that idea? > Imho in case of an update of module-init-tools that sounds absolutely > reasonable. Users are much more likely to reboot their machines then get > updates for module-init-tools, so the little overhead introduced with > running depmod -a during an update should in general be significantly > lower than the gains in subsequent bootups. Interestingly, I was expecting a lot more "oh nos! Don't do that because it breaks some weirdly random preconceived notion" but for once, nothing. Cool. Jon. _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
