[ovs-dev] poll: should "make install" install kernel modules as well?

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Jun 9 21:00:51 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> I have always considered installing kernel modules to be a bit of a
> "special" operation, so running "make install" in an Open vSwitch build
> tree has never installed kernel modules.  But over the last few weeks a
> couple of people have told me that this is surprising behavior.  So I'm
> polling the list: do you think that "make install" should install the
> built kernel modules, if any?  Bonus points if you have a reason why or
> why not.

I received a grand total of zero serious replies to this question, so I'm
going to leave the current arrangement alone for now.




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