On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 21:41 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Not really necessary. The kernel module utilities have a provision that
>>> enables you to override the "original" kernel modules. Just put your
>>> "newer" kernel modules somewhere in:
>>>
>>>  /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/
>>>
>>> do a "depmod -a" and those modules should shadow the ones in the kernel
>>> tree.
>>>
>>
>> That is a grat piece of info which I sure did not know. How does depmod
>> know which the newer modules are? date?
>
> Just checks that tree first (../updates/), if it find the module it is
> looking for there it stops the search and ignores the rest.

OK, makes sense. It means I cannot simply stick a newer module anywhere and
expect it to be used.



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