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[Maarten de Vries]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 22:57, Andy Pieters <arch-general at andypieters.me.uk>
wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 21:38, mick howe via arch-general <
> arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> > you have rebooted since update? Every time updates generate a new
> startup?
> >
> >
> I concur: in many cases you need to reboot after doing a kernel update in
> order to recognise devices that were not plugged in before the update
>

Indeed.

To also explain why this happens: the relevant kernal modules hadn't been
loaded yet, and the modules on disk are for the newly upgraded kernel while
you're still running an older kernel. In that case, `pacman -Qi linux` and
`uname -r` will also show different version information.

-- Maarten