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. _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
