Faster, incremental depmod when adding modules?
When installing 1 or more out-of-tree modules within /lib/modules/$UNAME, is it possible to run depmod in an incremental fashion - adding symbols from the new modules to modules.dep[.bin] without re-scanning all of the other modules from that kernel version? I've tried specifying the new module files, but that seems to create a completely new modules.dep containing *only* the symbols from the new modules (which obviously isn't very useful). -- ======================================================================== Google Where SkyNet meets Idiocracy ========================================================================
On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 12:46 PM Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@gmail.com> wrote:
When installing 1 or more out-of-tree modules within /lib/modules/$UNAME, is it possible to run depmod in an incremental fashion - adding symbols from the new modules to modules.dep[.bin] without re-scanning all of the other modules from that kernel version?
I've tried specifying the new module files, but that seems to create a completely new modules.dep containing *only* the symbols from the new modules (which obviously isn't very useful).
OPTIONS -a, --all Probe all modules. This option is enabled by default if no file names are given in the command-line. -A, --quick This option scans to see if any modules are newer than the modules.dep file before any work is done: if not, it silently exits rather than regenerating the files. 2nd looks like what u want
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