Re: compiling modules later, after changing the configuration of the kernel

From: goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de
Date: Fri Aug 04 2000 - 17:29:16 EST


bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl> writes:

> Today I decided that I needed the ethertap driver, so I ran make menuconfig
> on my current kernel, and added ethertap as a module.
>
> I then ran make modules ; make modules install ; depmod -a ; modprobe
> ethertap, and lo, this worked. The ethertap doesn't however.
>
> Now, I was wondering, is this supposed to work, retroactively changing the
> configuration of your kernel, and creating new modules?
>
> It works for a lot of modules, is it guaranteed to work?

scsi doesn't work that way.

MfG
        Goswin

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