Re: [gentoo-user] Making changes to a statically build driver

["W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au>]

Set something that will show on the modinfo command?

I dont have e1000, but this a coda.ko example

bunyip ~ # modinfo coda 
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.27-gentoo-r4/kernel/fs/coda/coda.ko
version:        6.6
license:        GPL
alias:          char-major-67-*
description:    Coda Distributed File System VFS interface
author:         Jan Harkes, Peter J. Braam
srcversion:     88DB5609F61269AF835BA05
depends:        
vermagic:       2.6.27-gentoo-r4 preempt mod_unload modversions
PENTIUMM 
bunyip ~ #

Billk




On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 23:17 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote:
> Never made such thing, so just a guess: maybe a log entry on some
> event, like link up - at that time, probably, the log engine is
> already up and running.
> 
> Francisco
> 
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Ezra Taylor <ezra.taylor@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all:
> >                I made some changes to the e1000 kernel driver.  I then
> > recompiled the kernel without any issue.  How can I tell if the change
> > actually went through?  Again, this driver has been statically built into
> > the kernel.  Is there a way to test that a change went through without have
> > to setup a test environment?
> >
> > --
> > Ezra Taylor
> >
> 
> 
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