?!: 2.4 kernels, modules_install

["Tony Crawford" <tc@crawfords.de>]

Hi gang!

It seems the behavior of "make modules_install" has changed 
radically with linux 2.4. Or is it just me?

Contrary to what I've become accustomed to, the 2.4.2 from 
kernel.org seems to have put all its modules into 
/lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/..., in a directory tree that matches 
that of the source. And it doesn't find them on booting. I could 
"understand" this if "make modules_install" ended with an error, 
but it didn't. So I tried a .deb of 2.4.0-test11, and same 
thing.

Any ideas? May I add that I read the docs in the source package 
and browsed the kernel.org list archives, and haven't found 
anything about intended changes in this regard, so I guess 
something's broken on my system, which is potato. All the 2.2.17 
kernels I built on it worked fine, including some ISDN patches. 
I'd like to use the ISDN drivers that are in the 2.4s, though, 
since the back-ports to 2.2 are somewhat backlogged.

In anticipatory gratitude for all kinds of astute tips,

Tony

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