From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modules_install must not remove existing modules
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 00:06:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604060006.30759.agruen@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604052152.k35LqtQ0032100@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 23:52, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Can this be re-worked to ensure that it clears the target directory
> the *first* time? It would suck mightily if a previous build of 2.6.17-rc2
> left a net_foo.ko lying around to get insmod'ed by accident (consider the
> case of CONFIG_NETFOO=m getting changed to y or n, and other possible
> horkage. Module versioning will catch some, but not all, of this crap....)
We could wipe away everything in the non-external modules_install case (not
only everything below kernel/ as is done now). The problem here is that
different external modules_install calls into the same dir conflict.
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-05 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-05 21:33 [PATCH] modules_install must not remove existing modules Andreas Gruenbacher
2006-04-05 21:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-04-05 22:06 ` Andreas Gruenbacher [this message]
2006-04-05 22:33 ` Gene Heskett
2006-04-05 22:12 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-04-05 22:21 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2006-04-06 4:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-04-06 6:43 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-04-06 20:28 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-04-06 20:29 ` Sam Ravnborg
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