Bug 128885

Summary:	Remove old kernel modules after kernel upgrade
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Michael Stather <kontakt>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 1
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Michael Stather 2005-10-17 22:24:57 UTC

I suggest a mechanism which removed the directory with the old kernel modules
after upgrading to a newer kernel. They don´t work anyway and waste almost 50MB
of disk space.

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-10-18 09:32:05 UTC

Bad idea ... sometime there are a lot of customers modules and
they do not want this.

Comment 2 Michael Stather 2005-10-18 16:27:47 UTC

Ok. I´ve no problem with this I just think about ideas making SuSE better IMO. Do you mean modules which are installed and configured by the user with "customers modules". If yes, whet about removing only the modules which were installed with the kernel, not modules which were added manually.

Comment 3 Kurt Garloff 2005-11-28 17:41:18 UTC

If you rpm -U a new kernel, the old one gets uninstalled and the modules
vanish. So I fail to understand this bug report.

Comment 4 Michael Stather 2005-11-28 22:34:08 UTC

I don´t know why but when I upgrade my kernewl through YOU there is stille a directory under /lib/modules for the old kernel version which is almost 50MB big.