On Dec 05, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote: > dh_installmodules generates code to run update-modules in the postinst > and postrm, which are run when modules are installed or removed. Amoung > other things, the depmod call in update-modules.modutils makes the newly > installed modules in the postinst available for immediate use (if the > kernel matches). Right, I did not remember that update-modules also runs depmod. This is interesting, because if modutils is not installed then depmod will not be run by the update-modules script of module-init-tools. Nobody ever reported this, so I wonder if the packages which install 2.6 modules already run depmod or what else. My goal was to prepare the update-modules phase-out, but now I am not so sure. What should I do, encourage the maintainers of modules for 2.6 kernels to just use depmod or make update-modules run it and keep the script forever? Comments are encouraged, I favour the first option. -- ciao, Marco
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