From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1He7bM-0004sK-Eo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:41:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3IAcLa7026585; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:38:21 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3IAXCgI020620 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:33:12 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE7D1D5EC for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:33:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id pMKHgfHtWoXh for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:33:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net (adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 204F01D5ED for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:33:10 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Add a module post kernel config/build Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:33:01 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <873b2y59i7.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <873b2y59i7.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart25733582.2dExIMEJQ6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200704180533.06847.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: 39ab1ea9-49b6-4b69-998d-e722cfb3517e X-Archives-Hash: 096504586d320c653eee91f0b98ea2d5 --nextPart25733582.2dExIMEJQ6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 18 April 2007, reader@newsguy.com wrote about '[gentoo-user] = =20 Add a module post kernel config/build': > Summary: > How can I add an additional module once I've configured/built a kernel? > > Details: After looking thru the handbook, especially section about > kernel config, I don't see information about how to add a module once > a kernel is built and running. =46or in-tree modules, go into the kernel source directory, use menuconfig = or=20 whatever to set that configuration setting to 'm', make, make=20 modules-install. (Or, at least, that's my preferred method modulo typos.) Changing kernel settings doesn't always require a new kernel image; here's= =20 a table (please view in a fixed width font. Old New Result N M Rebuild modules N Y Rebuild image M N No rebuild needed M Y Rebuild image [1] Y N Rebuild image Y M Rebuild image If the image needs rebuilding, you'll also need to rebuild all modules. =20 You'll also want to re-install anything you had to rebuild. [1]: Remove the module from /lib/modules to make sure you don't try and=20 load it twice. =2D-=20 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=3D ,-_-. =3D.=20 bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'=20 http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ =20 --nextPart25733582.2dExIMEJQ6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGJfPi55pqL7G1QFkRAtAPAJsEpB9XZooqKf2treCol2WC5U+OsgCeKBYQ I5XEctkFqXT3orrduGOQVAs= =O//Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart25733582.2dExIMEJQ6-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list