On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > 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 OK. I got the point. It's fixed in the current alsa-compile.sh script. Also, the --kmodclean option was added to remove ALSA kernel modules in this location. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
