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On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 12:44:09AM +0000, Jeff Davidson wrote: |
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> What about a hash of the directory? I haven't investigated the situation much, |
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> but I'd have to imagine that a CRC32, md5, or SHA1 (overkill) would be able to |
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> detect a file change and still be faster than always running modules-update. |
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It would still fail if some content made use of the include directive, |
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and included a file outside of your hashed dataset that got changed. |
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You'd be better off integrating such a design into modules-update. |
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One further reason that running modules-update is important, is to |
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handle the need to run depmod if the content of modules/kernels changes. |
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