Bugzilla Bug 250377: External modules of removed kernels are not removed

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 21:39 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:06:23 -0400
> Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > When mdomsch, davej, jcm and I talked about it back in February, that
> > was the conclusion we reached.  It should be pretty simple, too --
> > just pick a directory[1], run things out of it that are executable.  
> > 
> > Again, leaving out whether or not its a good idea ;-)
> 
> I'd rather you comment about that as well.  As I understand things,
> this would make DKMS payloads much easier.  There are some looking at
> replacing kmods with that...

Yes, it makes doing things like dkms or even some of the kmodtool
horrors easier.  And thus I suspect it's something of a necessary evil.
Doesn't mean I have to like it, though.

Jeremy