Ubuntu kernel updates

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:41:05PM +0200, Alexander Brinkman wrote:
> The other way, as I said, is avoiding the problem all together. Possibly
> by automatically build or reinstall DKMS modules when a new kernel is
> installed. On Ubuntu and Debian however, I believe this is a very hard
> thing to do. It is possible to create a hook whenever a new kernel is
> installed, but that won't work because you would also need the kernel
> headers (which is in a different debian package) and they might not be
> installed until later on... The alternative would be to trigger a script
> after the kernel headers are installed, but as I understand this is not
> possible at the moment (dpkg triggers is still a draft-feature).

As the kABI hasn't changed between 2.6.15-27.X and 2.6.15-27.Y (where
Y > X), no rebuild is necessary.

What we need is a directory under /lib/modules/$kernelversion/ that
doesn't get replaced on a minor kernel update from X to Y above...
Does such a directory exist?

Thanks,
Matt

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