[ale] How do I make a current set of modules?

[Chris Ricker]

On  5 Feb, John M. Mills wrote:
> 
> Silly problem -- quick answer I expect:
>   I have rebuilt my kernel and modules, but can't load modules due to a
>   version mismatch between modules and kernel.
> 
> I rebuilt my 2.0.30 kernel without making changes in version numbers so
> far as I knew.  I did: 'make config', 'make dep; make clean; make zImage',
> 'make modules', 'make modules_install', copied zImage to
> /boot/<kernel_name>, and ran 'lilo'.  Now when I boot, the system refuses
> to load any modules, with an error message of the general form:
> "Your modules (from linux-2.0.30) do not match your Linux-2.0.30 kernel"
> along with similar nastigrams from 'depmod' and 'insmod'.

Try 

rm -rf /lib/modules/2.0.30
make modules_install

You've probably got old modules kicking around that shouldn't be.

> I repeated the experiment and saw that few if any modules were actually
> rebuilt, even though I had re-done the sequence including 'make clean'.
> Do I have to do a separate 'make clean' of modules, transer some other
> data to a module load directory, or what?  I did try with and without the
> config selection: CONFIG_MODVERSIONS and it seemed to make no difference.

make clean should clobber modules as well.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu