Re: modules

[Viktor Rosenfeld <rosenfel@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote:
> 
> Once upon a time, I heard Viktor Rosenfeld say
> 
> > (**) I never understood why "dpkg -i" bitches about the fact that you
> > install the same kernel version as the currently running kernel.  It
> > justifies it with possible confusion in /lib/modules/<version>, but
> > that's what I don't get.  Newly compiled modules will overwrite the old,
> > and older kernel modules should still load perfectly, because they're
> > for the same kernel-version.  What's the big deal then?
> Let's say you turn off apm, and remove some modules. If your old module with
> apm get loaded, ummm, I don't what's going to happen. May be nothing serious
> would happen.

I've never tried it before (and I am to lazy to compile a new kernel,
just to try it out), but I think modprobe/insmod would complain about
unresolved references and ... and that would be it.

MfG Viktor
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