Re: how to override kernel modules?

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano <nando ccrma Stanford EDU>]

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 13:09, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 11:53 -0700, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > I believe there was a mechanism for doing that in RH/FC with the older
> > modutils and 2.4.x (the "updates" directory), there is none available
> > for 2.6.x (AFAIK). 
> 
> This was done as a patch to modutils that it doesn't appear we've done
> any sort of analog for in module-init-tools.  This would be a bug --
> could you file in bugzilla that module-init-tools doesn't look in the
> updates directory first so that this doesn't get lost?

Ok, filed as Bug 125990. I'll try for a better patch than what I posted
to the list before so that "updates/" is singled out specifically (to
mantain compatibility with the 2.4.x behavior). 

-- Fernando