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 1QUjvp-00072o-Nw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:26:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B37E1C12E; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:19:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE0AD1C12E for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so1761930wyi.40 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:19:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=BKwVy9oQYtoyv9qewba9FPTRtEyKCGfXYXcROcVFMyI=; b=MRmbkSr6mchUYTsYGdEnrmVmoo2hPfiynBs9vjeT7ypiZEwWHs4Jl10gD9YFEOmMHI kzZ+NoQdSJYsS8vYlWJLxx/JdJJ72vzGwzjjz5inWtTysphtk9zIlW0hJ2sSqAbLLMfF EAmqh+Fh6B5T3PaYEc7agkgquCZI+2HQc5BmE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=s7P1m7IeTeU9BZPZ5+CL9MLT3k6OXPHNsFeG5kDEMi1SP29qG8H08ck4oJQonVsMAJ PxKcyvlSFQorEGBMRjGnDLAqNqDIv71Y/mPyXCigM3vhSeb75pa2FANC2r8y5d52wI4P rLl6OqwaBSTKjbbHy/9td2snBme1cCrFkTTs4= Received: by 10.216.55.193 with SMTP id k43mr1100768wec.51.1307643556995; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-183-215.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.183.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a1sm991050wek.22.2011.06.09.11.19.14 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:19:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Modules Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:18:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Nikos Chantziaras References: <4DF0A5FA.1020602@gmail.com> <4DF0B893.6010303@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106092018.37311.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d4e73a1f378fdfe6f8b4137ebc1585ca Apparently, though unproven, at 19:32 on Thursday 09 June 2011, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: > On 06/09/2011 03:12 PM, Ignas Anikevicius wrote: > > On 09/06/11 12:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> 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 > > > > Thanks very much! > > You actually don't need to the symlinks yourself. Try: > > eselect kernel list > > Then choose one with something like: > > eselect kernel set 2 Sure, but I can use ln in my sleep. eselect OTOH, is something I always have to run bit by bit to recall the invocation. That's just way too much effort for this here old git.... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com