[expert] how not to lose the 3rd party modules when recompiling kernel

[Adrian Golumbovici]

Hi all,   I am having a bit of a problem. Most times you recompile kernels are to get support for hardware you have, but the default flavour kernel don't have it. at least 90% of the times when you recompile is just to enable a few things, disable some other or after a patch, but using same kernel version. But this should not influence IMHO the 3rd party modules (or at least 99.99% of the time). For some strange reason each time I recompile the kernel, the 3rd party modules just disappear from the /lib/modules/... and then have to reinstall them. With custom compiled modules am not sure if only to copy the previous compiled module in the /lib/modules/... would work (didn't try it/always recompiled), but with rpmed modules you definitely have to rpm -e and then rpm -ivh again. :/ It is a major PITA if you have more than a couple of such modules. Anyone any idea what am I doing wrong, or how to prevent the kernel recompile make my 3rd party modules disappear?   Best regards, Adrian