On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 05:46:38PM -0700, Ansis Atteka wrote: >> This patch fixes a bug where "modprobe openvswitch" command on Ubuntu >> distribution would have sometimes tried to load OVS kernel module that >> shipped together with Linux Kernel, even though one had also installed >> OVS datapath debian package created with module-assistant. Because of >> this issue force-reload-kmod command occasionally malfunctioned and >> failed to load the right kernel module. >> >> This bug happened *occasionally* because the default Ubuntu depmod >> configuration in /etc/depmod.d/ubuntu.conf is set to look for kernel >> modules first in "updates" directory, then in "ubuntu" directory and >> then in other directories. If there were two openvswitch.ko modules >> in "other directories", then modprobe would have loaded that kernel >> module that was nondeterministically listed by file system. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatt...@nicira.com> > > Good catch! I bet that took a lot of care to track down; thanks for > doing it! > > I assume you'll backport this as necessary? > > Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>
Thanks for review, I pushed this all the way back to branch-2.0 I can push it back even further if anyone thinks it is necessary. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
