On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 21:41 -0700, Bill Unruh wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> 
> >
> > Not really necessary. The kernel module utilities have a provision that
> > enables you to override the "original" kernel modules. Just put your
> > "newer" kernel modules somewhere in:
> >
> >  /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/
> >
> > do a "depmod -a" and those modules should shadow the ones in the kernel
> > tree.
> >
> 
> That is a grat piece of info which I sure did not know. How does depmod
> know which the newer modules are? date?

Just checks that tree first (../updates/), if it find the module it is
looking for there it stops the search and ignores the rest. 

-- Fernando




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