Re: Old Kernel Modules Directories not Cleaned up

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On 01.02.2015 21:51, Stephen Morris wrote:

> The wifi driver has only just been used since the 3.17 kernel, all he 
> other kernels did not have that module, the pci card I was using had 
> support built in to the kernel. I have always had the binary nvidia 
> modules installed via dnf/yum, although I have also had the akmod 
> packages installed as well just in case the binary modules don't match 
> the kernel version, and the virtualbox modules are all the binary 
> modules installed by dnf/yum, so I would have expected the 
> /lib/modules/* directories to be removed when dnf/yum did the package 
> removes. If dkms was used on the odd occasion for the nvidia modules, I 
> would have expected the dkms tree to be rebuilt to remove the entries 
> relevant to the kernel being removed and the modules deleted, as used to 
> happen in the distribution I was using prior to Fedora.
> 

Do not bother with that, when you remember wipe these modules and directories manually, and that's it.



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