Possible mangled driver after kernel update

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Liam Proven wrote:

>You should be fine. I've seen that error a few times.

It was a first for me.

>It seems to mean "this additional driver was installed in the kernel
>you are removing", *not* "you are removing the kernel that you are
>running right now!"

I see what you mean, although in looking at it again, the message was
in reference to the driver that was removed rather than the new one
that was installed.

Either way, it seems that this may not be an error at all and may
simply be a standard message to let you know what was happening
during the process of introducing a new driver and removing an old
one in the event that a kernel it had interacted with was still in
use, which it was. I realize it usually wouldn't be, but it's a
condition the developers seem to have taken into consideration,
perhaps for folks who care about up-time and don't reboot their
systems or for folks like me who botch updates or both.

If I'd done the required reboot, the kernel the message was in
reference to wouldn't have still been in use, making the message
unnecessary, and there wouldn't have been an extra kernel for me to
manually remove. Lesson learned and no harm done.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.