From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LfPoL-0007Kd-FZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:29:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87107E0431; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:29:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.148]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E10AEE0431 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:29:15 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAP8YsEnLzjSt/2dsb2JhbADXYYQIBg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,311,1233500400"; d="scan'208";a="397689937" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([203.206.52.173]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 06 Mar 2009 11:29:13 +0900 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA052161B5D5 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:29:12 +0900 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wOy55XLeRtJ9 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:28:59 +0900 (WST) Received: from [192.168.50.73] (unknown [192.168.50.73]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F9215DD0AC for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:28:56 +0900 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Making changes to a statically build driver From: "W.Kenworthy" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <543f3b9c0903051817lb850d5fo3cda2efb94490c69@mail.gmail.com> References: <543f3b9c0903051817lb850d5fo3cda2efb94490c69@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home in Perth, Western Australia Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:28:56 +0900 Message-Id: <1236306536.8451.2.camel@bunyip.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c9321ef1-6b79-4b25-af40-9ee17eece9a8 X-Archives-Hash: c8b667e913a4323a4167b8bf2722a363 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 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 > > > > >