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From: Bzzzz <lazyvirus@gmx.com>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: Advising in packages to load new module or reboot
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 01:37:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170809013739.26c7f2d5@msi.defcon1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9q50iu1h+Wxi1CGji0MbD2dYtiCyGhPT3cvihsC0MsJNw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 01:30:50 +0200
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:

> That might mean printing nice messages if the correct dependency isn't
> obvious.
> 
> For (1) and (2), though, what do you think of the warning I've added
> to Gentoo? That's what I meant by asking for thoughts on "this
> pattern" -- the whole thing with comparing running kernel and
> compiled-for-kernel and comparing loaded-module-version and
> compiled-module-version.

I found something that _may_ help you, it's an old bug report on DKMS.
As far as I understand it, it is DKMS' work to issue a warning:
https://github.com/dell/dkms/issues/14

Jean-Yves

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-08 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-08 23:16 Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-08-08 23:27 ` Jonathon Fernyhough
2017-08-08 23:30   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-08-08 23:37     ` Bzzzz [this message]
2017-08-08 23:46     ` Jonathon Fernyhough
2017-08-09 11:16 ` Egbert Verhage
2017-08-09 17:05   ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor

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