/lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc - shouldn't this be a directory?

[Ben Lancaster]

On 4 Jun 2006, at 21:23, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Ben Lancaster writes:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> I can't seem to install the standalone imon_vfd drivers from http://
>>> venky.ws:
>>>
>>> # make install
>>> depmod
>>> /usr/bin/install imon_vfd.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
>>>
>>> Following that:
>>> # modprobe imon_vfd
>>> FATAL: Module imon_vfd not found.
>>>
>>> By my logic, shouldn't the install process have effectively copied
>>> the imon_vfd driver to a directory called misc within my running  
>>> kernel?
>>
>> Correct.
>>
>>>
>>> Here's what stat says:
>>>
>>> It's an executable file! Is that right??
>>
>> No.
>>
>> The driver makefile is broken.  It assumes that the misc subdirectory
>> already exists.
>>
> It is broken in another way as well - depmod should be run after the
> module is installed, not before. The depmod command updates the
> modules table. If you do not do that after installing a new module,
> the kennel and the module utilities will not know about the module.
> A reboot will take care of this as well, because depmod is run at
> bootup as part of the init scripts. The make file should probably
> use "depmod -A" to save a bit of time.
>
> Mikkel

All in all, that's one broken makefile!

So a quick fix would be to remove the 'misc' file, create a directory  
in its place, and re-install, followed by 'depmod'?

Ben