Re: [PATCH] modules_install must not remove existing modules

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Wednesday 05 April 2006 17:52, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:33:50 +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher said:
>> When installing external modules with `make modules_install', the
>> first thing that happens is a rm -rf of the target directory. This
>> works only once, and breaks when installing more than one (set of)
>> external module(s).
>
>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....)

I avoid this in my own makeit script by mv'ing all that stuff to 
a /lib/modules/version_number.old, ditto for vmlinuz and initrd.  That 
way, if the new one doesn't work, I can choose some other kernel in the 
grub startup, boot it it, then just mv the stuff back, and voila!  
Another reboot and I'm back on the last kernel that worked.

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