On 26 September 2016 at 20:52, Darrell Ball <dlu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Gurucharan Shetty <g...@ovn.org> wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <g...@ovn.org> >> --- >> INSTALL.md | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- >> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md >> index bb40e4a..6ecefdf 100644 >> --- a/INSTALL.md >> +++ b/INSTALL.md >> @@ -322,9 +322,30 @@ 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 >> + % depmod -a >> + ``` >> + >> > > I tried the script > > #!/bin/bash > 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 > depmod -a > > on Ubuntu 14.04 and the script generated the expected > file contents > > dball@ubuntu:~/openvswitch/ovs/_gcc$ cat /etc/depmod.d/openvswitch.conf > override openvswitch.ko * extra > override openvswitch.ko * weak-updates > override vport-geneve.ko * extra > override vport-geneve.ko * weak-updates > override vport-gre.ko * extra > override vport-gre.ko * weak-updates > override vport-lisp.ko * extra > override vport-lisp.ko * weak-updates > override vport-stt.ko * extra > override vport-stt.ko * weak-updates > override vport-vxlan.ko * extra > override vport-vxlan.ko * weak-updates > Can you try the v3 that I sent. It is very similar to what we do for RHEL here: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in#L65 > > However the "extra" directory where locally built ovs kos are installed is > not > taking precedence > > dball@ubuntu:~/openvswitch/ovs/_gcc$ sudo modinfo openvswitch > filename: /lib/modules/3.19.0-25-generic/kernel/net/openvswitch/ > openvswitch.ko > license: GPL > description: Open vSwitch switching datapath > srcversion: EB1236CA2503B5F233DE125 > depends: libcrc32c > intree: Y > vermagic: 3.19.0-25-generic SMP mod_unload modversions > signer: Magrathea: Glacier signing key > sig_key: 6A:AA:11:D1:8C:2D:3A:40:B1:B4 > :DB:E5:BF:8A:D6:56:DD:F5:18:38 > sig_hashalgo: sha512 > > So I edited the script to do something minimal, although it may not > work for all distributions ? > > #!/bin/bash > config_file="/etc/depmod.d/openvswitch.conf" > echo "search extra" >> "$config_file" > depmod -a > > dball@ubuntu:~/openvswitch/ovs/_gcc$ cat /etc/depmod.d/openvswitch.conf > search extra > > and it seems to work (i.e. overrides my default config file) on Ubuntu > > dball@ubuntu:~/openvswitch/ovs/_gcc$ sudo modinfo openvswitch > filename: /lib/modules/3.19.0-25-generic/extra/openvswitch.ko > alias: net-pf-16-proto-16-family-ovs_packet > alias: net-pf-16-proto-16-family-ovs_flow > alias: net-pf-16-proto-16-family-ovs_vport > alias: net-pf-16-proto-16-family-ovs_datapath > version: 2.6.90 > license: GPL > description: Open vSwitch switching datapath > srcversion: E30F336D9883ACAE1CB02EA > depends: nf_conntrack,nf_nat,nf_defrag_ipv6,libcrc32c,nf_nat_ipv6, > nf_nat_ipv4,gre,nf_defrag_ipv4 > vermagic: 3.19.0-25-generic SMP mod_unload modversions > parm: udp_port:Destination UDP port (ushort) > > > > > >> + Finally, load the kernel modules that you need. e.g.: >> + >> `% /sbin/modprobe openvswitch` >> >> To verify that the modules have been loaded, run "/sbin/lsmod" and >> -- >> 1.9.1 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> dev@openvswitch.org >> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >> > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev