Rebuilt kernel => no consoles?

[David Abrahams]

Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> Oh, and now I remember what made me so reluctant to do this.  The last
>> time I tried to rebuild the stack, the very first thing it wanted to
>> do was blow away all of the relevant existing files in
>> /lib/modules/..., which means that undoing the install if something
>> goes wrong is tricky at best.  How do you deal with that issue?
>> 
> Create a kernel with a custom version number. If you're using make-kpkg,
> it'll create it that way by default.  So then you have
> a /lib/modules/2.6.nn-6-686/ (from the default kernel)
> and /lib/modules/2.6.nn-6-686-custom1 (or similar, from your self-compiled
> kernel).

Note: what everyone seems to be missing here is that the makefile for
ieee80211 tries to blow away *all* the ieee80211-related modules for
*every* kernel on the system, not just the one I'm trying to build.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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