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
-- Eliot