Re: Simple 'make modules_install' patch

Nicholas R LeRoy (nick.leroy@norland.com)
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 14:35:48 -0600

On Dec 9, 3:34am, Artur Skawina wrote:
> Subject: Re: Simple 'make modules_install' patch
> Keith Owens wrote:
> >
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit should run depmod automatically on startup if
> > modules are activated. Check your startup scripts.
>
> running depmod on boot usually works, but that alone doesn't help when
> you want to load modules before remounting the fs r/w...

Keith..

Sorry about the delay in responding -- I've been out of the office for
several days.

If I'm understanding you correctly, then this makes my patch a good thing,
right -- because it *needs* to be done before the system is shutdown in
such cases?

-Nick

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