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Re: RFC: DKMS - Dynamic Kernel Module Support



On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:58:22 +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:29:44PM +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> 
> > > I wonder how this can be done with zaptel. If you try to be
> > > user-friendly and run '/etc/init.d/zaptel/unload' when installing
> > > zaptel-modules-<current-kernel>' it'll eventually fail normally, because
> > > Asterisk holds /dev/zap/pseudo open, and hence zaptel cannot be
> > > unloaded.
> > > 
> > > (And this assumes that the application using it is 'asterisk')
> > 
> > I believe this is a bug in the zaptel init scripts... shouldn't they check
> > whether they can be unloaded? Is there a --force option? But this is another
> > story :)
> 
> Maybe it's possible (I'm not exactly sure. I think it's possible, at
> least in most cases). But do I want this? Do I want to shut down my PBX
> because of the Ubuntu kernel upgrade of the month?

So, you'll never upgrade kernel... because upgrading would mean losing zaptel
-- and your PBX. Am I right? :)

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