Re: Kernel 2.2.3

[Mirek Kwasniak <mirek@zind.ikem.pwr.wroc.pl>]

On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 08:39:00PM +0000, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> I have couple of questions about upgrading my kernel to 2.2.3.
> 
> I downloaded the full source and went through all the steps to compile,
> but when I rebooted I received an error telling me that modules.dep was
> empty. I took a look at /lib/modules/2.2.3/modules.dep and yep, it's
> empty. I looked at the modules.dep file under my 2.0.34 directory and it
> looks like this file tells where all the modules are.
> 
> Since mine is empty, where can I find a replacement, or how do I get it
> populated?

This is done by 'depmod -a'. In my system (slink) I have modutils package
which installs file /etc/init.d/modutils with sequence:
[...]
        echo -n "Calculating module dependencies... "
        depmod -a > /dev/null
        echo "done."
[...]

Mirek