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On Monday 13 October 2003 16:37, Hall Stevenson wrote:

> FWIW, I've been doing that for a long time, possibly with 2.2 kernels. I'm
> not sure what "make modules_install" does, but it seems to NOT remove the
> dir and replace it. So, any old modules created with a previous build will
> remain. They should never be called though and therefore not cause
> problems, but something kept going wrong. So, I always "rm -rf" that dir
> and let "make modules_install" re-create it.

Without trying to argue the toss, 'make modules_install' does wipe out all 
previous build modules (only for the version you are compiling!). This is 
proved by the fact you need to re-emerge alsa-driver/nvidia-kernel/
pcmcia-cs/... each time you recompile your kernel.
If you're paranoid, unlike me (who's that hiding under the desk! In the 
corner, I can see you!), delete away :)

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Mike Williams
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