module-init-tools v3.6 released
Jon Masters
jcm at redhat.com
Thu Feb 5 14:58:41 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 09:52 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jon Masters (jcm at redhat.com) said:
> > This works fine, but means that, if we upgrade module-init-tools and
> > there is a binary format change, then the system will be "slow" booting
> > before depmod has been re-run again. I'm thinking about just doing a
> > "depmod -a" on upgrade in such cases in the future...is there a problem
> > with that idea?
>
> Given the (presumable) infreqeuency of file format updates, especially
> compared to kernel updates, I wouldn't necessarily bother with it.
Neither would I, but the difference in "boot" time is fairly dramatic
and people might whine ;)
Jon.
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