[alsa-devel] alsa-compile.sh - easy testing of latest ALSA code

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:47:35 +1300,
Eliot Blennerhassett wrote:
> 
> Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >> Just one point I noticed quickly is that the standard directory for
> >> update modules is either /lib/modules/$VERSION/updates or
> >> /lib/modules/$VERSION/extras.  We should follow that.
> > 
> > The script just call 'make install-modules' in the alsa-driver package. 
> > Anyway, overwriting kernel modules is just a workaround to bypass the 
> > standard packaging. I don't think that using a special directory helps.
> 
> I think it helps:
> 
> Building drivers from source I usually configure --with-moddir=updates/alsa
> 
> This means
> * The newly generated modules do not overwrite the distro supplied ones.
>  * I can easily revert to the distro ones by deleting updates/alsa (my
> updates directory also has a dkms subdirectory) and rerunning depmod

Right.  With the updates directory, you can keep the original modules
intact.  This is the biggest difference from the default behavior.
Also, it makes easier to have a clean re-update.  Clean the whole
updates directory, then install there again.


Takashi