On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:50, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>From what I have read in the list, FC >= 1 has a
/lib/modules/`uname
-r`/updates directory where kernel modules could be dropped to override
modules that are included in the standard kernel.
Apparently that is not happening. The kernel modules in the "updates"
directory are always showing up in modules.dep _after_ the kernel
modules in the main tree.
Anything I need to do to change this?
I did some more code reading and apparently you can't override a kernel
module with another module of the same name _reliably_. That was a
possibility under 2.4.x but not under 2.6.x. The new module utilities
apparently just do a readdir scan of /lib/module/`uname -r`/ and the
order of "discovery" depends on what readdir returns (what is the
ordering of the returned entries, if any??).
I hope I'm wrong and there's something I did miss. If my assesment is
correct, I'm left with not options for upgrading the ALSA subsystem
independently of the kernel itself. Arghhhh...
-- Fernando