USB, etc [was: Re: USB Burner on SuSE 8.2]

[Jason Clinton]

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Brian Densmore wrote:

|> 	4. modules for your USB device built and installed properly
| Not sure what you mean by this 'make modules && make modules_install'
| should make and install them for you, although this can potentially
| trash your modules directories and if you are going from one major
| release to another there are other issues.

I agree with the rest of your reply; I would like to add a response to
this statement, though. Generally speaking, make modules_install should
never screw up your module directory. Inside /lib/modules/*/, each
directory is for each major kernel release so there should be no
conflict between _major_ releases. OTOH, IIRC, modules_install doesn't
delete the files that are already there; so, you may have some binary
drivers or drivers from other sources floating around in that directory.
I can't image how their presence might mess up any of the kernel's own
modules, though -- provided that the modules aren't replacing modules
provided by the kernel. That would be one hell of a bad distribution
practice, though. I'd like to have words with a package that overwrites
the kernel's own modules with its version. :)

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