Preventing upgrade of individual kernel modules

[Cromarty]

Hello,

I am trying to upgrade Arch Linux to incorporate the file-system merges which have recently taken place.

But I need to prevent the upgrade of the snd-bcm2835.ko.gz sound-driver module because the changes made at the end of April to add MMAP have broken it for text-to-speech. A fact that seems to be being ignored.

I thought adding this line to the file in /etc/pacman.conf might work:

NoUpgrade = /usr/lib/modules/3.6.11-9-ARCH+/kernel/sound/arm/snd-bcm2835.ko.gz

But of course the kernel version suffix has changed and the new path refelcts this and the new and broken sound driver is downloaded and used.

So...how can I prevent a particular kernel module from being changed between kernel versions?

Mike

[sdjf]

You can also specify parameters on the command line. Check the man page, I am not positive, but I think --ignore PACKAGENAME is what you would enter, but you also have to remove the copy that is now in pacman's cache. Sorry not able to check the man page at the moment, but I think something like that is it.

[jackokring]

Make an unmanaged copy of the latest, put the old module there, rename the library linked object, use the new headers, hope there has been no change in the library call interface, maybe add any unresolved symbols (by editing the old code), make a new kernel and module set without clean.

Worse things have been done.

[pepedog]

I would avoid kernel and firmware upgrades.
Where is the source, Mike, for the tts thingy?

[sdjf]

I just tested text-to-speech on the May image 3.6.11-11, and it works fine for me to echo speech to flite. What software are you using, are you sure it isn't a problem with your tts package vs. the driver? It works for me!

Maybe it is the tts package that needs fixing, but if you need it now, ugh.

I would test with a June image but do not have any that are working for me at this point, stuck back in May.