On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:15, Joao Barros wrote: > > This protects people from loading _really_ old modules, like say from > > 5.x to a 6.x or 7.x system, like for instance right after an upgrade. > > Will this prevent loading an old nvidia module on boot after a kernel > upgrade, which most times hangs the kernel? I mean, it will only > prevent the module loading on 5.x to 6.x or for example 6.0 to 6.1?
No it won't. The nvidia port should really put the kernel module into /boot/kernel to prevent this sort of foot shooting. Better yet commit my patch to rebuild port KLD's when the kernel is built :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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