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From: Avi Schwartz <avi@CFFtechnologies.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] How do I keep multiple versions of modules?
Date: 02 Apr 2002 12:35:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1017772502.6035.60.camel@seahorse> (raw)

Sounds strange, but not so.

The problem happened when I built the 2.4.19 kernel.  I had to rebuild
the pcmcia and alsa modules as well.  Guess what, I had some problems
with 2.4.19 (actually the problem is vmware and not the kernel.  vmware
will not build the modules since it uses malloc.h which was depriciated
in 2.4.19).  So I decided to boot 2.4.18.  Suddenly none of the alsa
modules would load.

What happens is that when I built the alsa modules for 2.4.19, the
installation program removed the previous version and therefore the
modules where gone from the /lib/modules/2.4.18 hierarchy.

Kernel modules should be special and if you rebuild a module, it should
remove the module only for the currently running kernel hierarchy and
not from a different kernel version.

Is this even possible with the poratge system?

I wasn't sure where I should post this, so I crossposted to user and
dev.

Avi

-- 
Avi Schwartz
avi@CFFtechnologies.com



             reply	other threads:[~2002-04-02 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-02 18:35 Avi Schwartz [this message]
2002-04-02 19:33 ` [gentoo-dev] How do I keep multiple versions of modules? Grant Goodyear
2002-04-02 20:16   ` Dan Armak

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