Re: My 2 cent suggestion for 2.3.x

Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch@wcnet.org)
Thu, 20 May 1999 18:56:03 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 20 May 1999 alano@summanulla.pcx.ncd.com wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 19 May 1999 alano@summanulla.pcx.ncd.com wrote:
> > >
> > > And no, I don't have a patch for this. Yet.
> > >
> >
> > AFAIK, that's what "make mrproper" is for.
>
> make mrproper does not always (ever?) get rid of old modules. (Otherwise you
> would need to recompile and reinstall pcmcia drivers every time you built a
> new kernel.)
>

It did for me... Otherwise, I'd have modules in my modules dir now. I
built a totally static kernel on my system like this:

# make mrproper ; make menuconfig
# make dep ; make bzImage

Which totally cleared the modules directory out.

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