[H-GEN] Ip Masquarade Module Install

[Andrae Muys]

On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Ross Camm wrote:
> 
> > My new kernel booted, but heaps of erors when loading modules, all
> > "undefined" errors.
> Yep a make modules_install won't overwrite modules.  So as you used the
> same kernel version (I gather) it didn't over-write the existing modules,
> introducing problems when you booted the new kernel.
>  
<SNIP>
> This list recently saw a discussion of the advantages of make
> modules_install doing an over-write or not.  Some good reasons for not
> doing an over-write were given but the problem you saw is a typical
> 'gotcha' as a result of the fact that they no longer over-write old
> modules.

It basically comes down to still being able to boot the old kernel if the
new one fails.  I really think that error message needs to be changed.
They are really warnings, not errors.  As long as you aren't using the
modules listed they don't affect the system at all.  And once you delete
the modules which you aren't using they disappear.  

I know its another two weeks, but if you haven't solved the problem by the
next meeting, we all have alot of practice at helping first-time kernel
compiler's :).

Andrae Muys

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