Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: ebuilds linked to kernel upgrade

[Herbert G. Fischer]

Oops... sorry for the last e-mail. I confess that I did not read your
code-piece before answering. It's exactly what I had in mind (as you saw).

2005/10/19, Herbert G. Fischer <herbert.fischer@×××××.com>:
>
> Perhaps the modules-update could be extended to detect new kernels and
> warn users or automatically update modules. This could also be documented in
> Gentoo docs since this is a basic and common problem that almost every
> Gentoo user may have.
>
> Thanks for the patch!
>
> 2005/10/19, John Myers <electronerd@××××××××××.com>:
> >
> > On Wednesday 19 October 2005 06:36, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:32:19AM -0200, Herbert G. Fischer wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > - Patch kernel's "make" to warn at the end of "make modules_install"
> >
> > [snip]
> > > I think you should check out sys-kernel/module-rebuild
> > Actually, a combination of these might not be a bad idea.
> >
> > Something like this (not tested):
> >
> > if [ -n "$(which module-rebuild 2>/dev/null)" ] ; then
> > if [ -n "${AUTO_MODULE_REBUILD}" ] ; then
> > echo "Rebuilding external modules:"
> > module-rebuild ${MODULE_REBUILD_OPTIONS} rebuild
> > else
> > echo "You might want to rebuild the following external modules:"
> > module-rebuild -XC list | tail -n +2
> > echo
> > echo "You can use module-rebuild to do that."
> > echo "If you want to have your external modules automatically rebuilt"
> > echo "when making a kernel's modules_install target, set"
> > echo "AUTO_MODULE_REBUILD in your environment. You can set"
> > echo "MODULE_REBUILD_OPTIONS to options to pass to module-rebuild."
> > echo "(-X for example)"
> > fi
> > else
> > echo "You might want to emerge sys-kernel/module-rebuild to keep track
> > of"
> > echo "kernel modules you've installed with emerge"
> > fi
> >
> >
> >
>