Re: not running depmod at boot time

[Matthew Woodcraft <matthew@woodcraft.me.uk>]

Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> wrote:
>> So, does anybody mind if I remove depmod from the module-init-tools init
>> script?
>So I did it. Since yesterday depmod -A is not run at boot time anymore.


Will the case described in this message (from the postinst for kernel .debs
made by kernel-package) still work ok?

| You are attempting to install a kernel version that is the same as the
| version you are currently running (version ${running}). The modules list
| is quite likely to have been changed, and the modules dependency file
| ${modules_base}/2.6.16intel/modules.dep needs to be re-built. It can not
| be built correctly right now, since the module list for the running
| kernel are likely to be different from the kernel installed. I am
| creating a new modules.dep file, but that may not be correct. It shall
| be regenerated correctly at next reboot.

-M-