[pvrusb2] Installation question

[Mike Isely]

On Sun, 6 May 2007, Steven Karp wrote:

> I've just upgraded my system to Suse 10.2, which is the first system I've used 
> that has the driver built in.  Naturally, being a danger to myself and 
> society, I'd always rather use the latest version.  I did the following:
> 
> 1) Build the latest standalone driver from freshly downloaded source.
> 2) Unplug the device from my USB port and "rmmod pvrusb2".
> 3) Rename the original pvrusb2.ko to pvrusb2.ko.original.
> 4) Copy the freshly built driver to the same directory as the original 
> and "depmod -a".
> 5) Plug the device back into my USB port.
> 
> Everything seems to be working and a look at dmesg shows my version of the 
> driver loading (pvrusb2-mci-20070428a).  My question is really whether I'm 
> laying myself open to possible future problems by leaving the renamed 
> original in the kernel's driver path and/or by dropping the standalone 
> version in the same directory rather than creating a directory just for the 
> pvusb2 driver as I have done in the past.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice,
> 

No, you did just fine :-)  Excellent job.

The only real reason my instructions advocated a separate directory was 
that it was easier to explain that way - and also to perhaps stay out of 
the way of any distro-managed areas.  (However even in that case you 
still had to rename the old driver out of the way so my rationale is 
exceedingly weak anyway.)  So you're fine.

  -Mike

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