On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 11:56 +0100, Phil Knirsch wrote:
Jon Masters wrote:
> This works fine, but means that, if we upgrade module-init-tools
and
> there is a binary format change, then the system will be "slow" booting
> before depmod has been re-run again. I'm thinking about just doing a
> "depmod -a" on upgrade in such cases in the future...is there a problem
> with that idea?
Imho in case of an update of module-init-tools that sounds absolutely
reasonable. Users are much more likely to reboot their machines then get
updates for module-init-tools, so the little overhead introduced with
running depmod -a during an update should in general be significantly
lower than the gains in subsequent bootups.
Interestingly, I was expecting a lot more "oh nos! Don't do that because
it breaks some weirdly random preconceived notion" but for once,
nothing. Cool.
Jon.