On May 26, Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> wrote: > However, since one cannot run depmod properly without the respective > kernel being installed, removing the depmod call will caus harm. Are you sure that this is still true? I believe that this has been fixed a long time ago. > It should be possible, though, to add a conditional around the call so > that the module dependencies will only be calculated again when the > a new kernel has been installed, the kernel version differs from the > last depmod call or more recent modules have been installed. If only > new modules have been added the depmod call could possibly run in the > background. If you need to walk /lib/modules/ then you have already lost. > Maybe the module-init-tools script could be altered in a way so that > depmod will always be executed in the background with respective > daemon started afterwards. I object to this kind of ad-hoc hacks. If this is the only way then the correct solution is to enable parallel processing of init scripts. -- ciao, Marco
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