Re: [gentoo-user] udev-181 and kmod vs module-init-tools

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
<h.v.bruinehsen@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> it worked flawless for me. Nothing "bad" happened.
> If it's a server you could also build a monolithic Kernel and remove
> the dependency completly since most servers don't need loadable
> modules. It even adds a little security-wise...

Thanks... I tried it, but didn't reboot yet. I was going to upgrade
kernel at the same time, it tells me this during "make install" phase:

  DEPMOD  3.2.11-gentoo
Warning: you may need to install module-init-tools
See http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt

But looking in the scripts seems the test is not valid for kmod:

if ! "$DEPMOD" -V 2>/dev/null | grep -q module-init-tools; then
	echo "Warning: you may need to install module-init-tools" >&2
	echo "See http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt" >&2
	sleep 1
fi

so I think it's a false alarm.

Now I just found
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.modules/659 this seems to
confirm it. And of course while I was compiling, the new kernel 3.3
has showed up in portage, with this problem fixed. :)

Now I'm rebooting, watching ping replied, fingers crossed... it's
alive! Success. :)

Thanks,
Paul