On 26 September 2016 at 07:13, Gurucharan Shetty <g...@ovn.org> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <g...@ovn.org>
> ---
> INSTALL.md | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md
> index bb40e4a..a9b70db 100644
> --- a/INSTALL.md
> +++ b/INSTALL.md
> @@ -322,9 +322,29 @@ Building the Sources
> 4. Run "make install" to install the executables and manpages into the
> running system, by default under /usr/local.
>
> -5. If you built kernel modules, you may install and load them, e.g.:
> +5. If you built kernel modules, you may install them, e.g.:
>
> `% make modules_install`
> +
> + It is possible that you already had a Open vSwitch kernel module
> + installed on your machine that came from upstream Linux (in a
> + different directory). To make sure that you insert the Open vSwitch
> + kernel module you built from this repository, you should create a
> + depmod.d file that prefers your newly installed kernel modules over
> + the kernel modules from upstream Linux. The following snippet of
> + code achieves the same.
> +
> + ```
> + % config_file="/etc/depmod.d/openvswitch.conf"
> + % for module in datapath/linux/*.ko; do
> + modname="$(basename ${module})"
> + echo "override $modname * extra" >> "$config_file"
> + echo "override $modname * weak-updates" >> "$config_file"
> + done
> + ```
Don't forget to "depmod" after writing this file.
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