Apparently, though unproven, at 12:52 on Thursday 09 June 2011, Ignas Anikevicius did opine thusly:
> Hello list, > > I was wondering if it is possible to have a tool with which it would be > possible to have external modules installed for _all_ kernel versions in > my computer. Now I am using 2.6.38 kernel, but would like to try 2.6.39 > and the thing is that I would like to have tp_smapi and phc-intel > modules in both kernels. Is it possible to have it without any serious > hacking? > > I have only 3 ideas how I could achieve that: > * Making a custom ebuild, which would build the modules, but install > itself as a different package depending on the kernel version (eg > tp_smapi-2.6.39-gentoo)? > * Making a custom ebuild, which would build the modules for all kernel > versions in one go... (is this possible?) > * patching the gentoo-sources each time. why you making so much work for yourself? set the /usr/src/linux symlink to each set of installed sources in turn, run emerge @module-rebuild or run module-rebuild rebuild you could even script it cd /usr/src for I in linux-* do ln -sfn $I linux module-rebuild rebuils done Fixing my bash syntax errors is left as an exercise for the interested reader -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
