compiling modules later, after changing the configuration of the kernel

From: bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl)
Date: Fri Aug 04 2000 - 08:44:31 EST

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?

Regards,

bert hubert 

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