Hi Greg, Greg Rose <gvrose8...@gmail.com> writes:
> A previous patch added post install and post uninstall scripts which > use the weak-modules utility to make sure that openvswitch kernel > modules are copied to the correct kernel directory. While this > patch did fix some issues there are two remaining issues we have > found. > > 1) In the case where the OS is running kernel X and the openvswitch > kernel modules have been previously installed correctly and are > working without a problem and then updating to Kernel X.1 we find > that the correct openvswitch kernel module no longer loads. > 2) In the case where a kernel module rpm has been built against an > older kernel but installed on a newer kernel then the correct > openvswitch kernel module will not load. > > This patch changes the weak-modules parameter to --add-kernel instead > of --add-modules. This fixes the problem in case 1. In addition > we modify the openvswitch depmod configuration file installed to the > /etc/depmod.d directory and prepend a "01" to the name of the file. > We then insert the first line of the file with a search path that > will find weak-updates first. This change along with the change > to the weak-modules utility parameters fixes the problem in case 2. > > I also modified the kernel module configuration file for both the > rhel6 and rhel7/fedora specs to use a common "01openvswitch.conf" > file name format. > > Cc: Flavio Leitner <f...@sysclose.org> > Co-authored-by: Gurucharan Shetty <g...@ovn.org> > Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8...@gmail.com> > --- Nit: The co-authored-by requires a signoff (according to the contributing guide) from the author. I didn't look at the contents of the patch since I'm not as familiar with weak-updates as I probably should be (more of a dkms fan, myself). -Aaron _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
