Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> Just one point I noticed quickly is that the standard directory for >> update modules is either /lib/modules/$VERSION/updates or >> /lib/modules/$VERSION/extras. We should follow that. > > The script just call 'make install-modules' in the alsa-driver package. > Anyway, overwriting kernel modules is just a workaround to bypass the > standard packaging. I don't think that using a special directory helps. I think it helps: Building drivers from source I usually configure --with-moddir=updates/alsa This means * The newly generated modules do not overwrite the distro supplied ones. * I can easily revert to the distro ones by deleting updates/alsa (my updates directory also has a dkms subdirectory) and rerunning depmod -- Eliot _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
