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Robin Martijn ik at robinmartijn.nl
Tue Mar 24 22:27:03 UTC 2020


Thanks everyone for thinking with me! However, I have indeed rebooted 
many times, and I have verified my versions. I am, with no doubt, on the 
right kernel.

On 3/24/20 11:02 PM, Maarten de Vries via arch-general wrote:
> 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
> 


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