On Friday 20 March 2009, Michal Marek wrote: > Frans Pop napsal(a): > > The use case here, which I suspect is not all that uncommon, is that > > I built a kernel from upstream source on a (Debian unstable) system > > with the new version of depmod and then installed that kernel on a > > (Debian stable) system that has an older version of modprobe [1]. > > Backward vs. forward compatibility discussion aside, there is a reason > why most (all?) distro kernel packages run depmod at *install time* on > the target machine. There might be modules installed by other packages, > the format might change, newer depmod has a configuration file and > finally the files are not exactly small and can be recreated rather > easily. It might be a good idea to do the same when compiling kernels > manually and copying them around. After some more reflection I've come to agree with this. Cheers, FJP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
