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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

"/lib/modules/*/modules.* should be excluded from install logs"

http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6423


On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> My apologies if I missed any discussions on this. I've added a spell for
> "ndiswrapper" kernel module. In casting, it modifies these files:
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.dep
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.generic_string
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.ieee1394map
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.isapnpmap
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.parportmap
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.pcimap
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.pnpbiosmap
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/modules.usbmap
> /lib/modules/2.4.25/pcmcia
> Now, they are also part of "linux" spell install log. If I dispel
> ndiswrapper, these files will be gone, and potentially the kernel will
> not function correctly, right? Is this really a problem and did we ever
> try to solve this it in any way? I don't see any relevant code in other
> kernel modules.
> Thanks,
> 
> Sergey.
> 
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