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

[Herbert G. Fischer]

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
>
>
>