On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 01:20:49PM -0500, Thomas F Herbert wrote: > On 1/28/16 11:07 AM, Guru Shetty wrote: > >It should ideally work. If not, it is a bug. Just to make sure that you > >are doing the right thing, have you read the following piece of > >instruction in INSTALL.RHEL.md <http://INSTALL.RHEL.md> carefully? > > > >""" > >On RHEL 6, to build the Open vSwitch kernel module, copy > > rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files into the RPM sources directory and run: > > > >""" > > > > > > > >On 28 January 2016 at 07:58, Thomas F Herbert <[email protected] > ><mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On 1/28/16 10:27 AM, Guru Shetty wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 28 January 2016 at 05:48, Thomas F Herbert > >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Thomas F Herbert <[email protected] > >> <mailto:[email protected]>> > >> > >> > >> The changes that this commit reverts were initially added as part > >> of commit 9c12d2ec7569a12d9. > >> So this commit will break the original fix. > > I found this building the kmod on Centos 7 and the file > > openvswitch.conf doesn't actually exist. Do Rhel 6 builds of the > > out-of-tree kmod still work? > > > You ask a good question. That missing file causes the build to fail on > Centos 7 which is why I submitted this patch. I have to try on RHEL or > Centos 6. I assumed it had something to do with earlier pre-DKMS tools to > build the depmod database with out-of-tree kernel modules.
I'm trying to keep up with patches, but I don't understand whether this one is needed or what the verdict on it is. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
