On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org> wrote:
> Out-of-tree modules are installed into the kernel's "extra" modules
> directory for the version that kmod-openvswitch is compiled against. For
> all other kernels on the system at install time, a symlink is created in
> the "weak-updates" directory. This provides a path for the same kernel
> module to be used when minor kernel updates are done on a system.
> However, without updating the depmod configuration the weak-update will
> not be prioritized, so modprobe will switch back to using upstream
> kernel modules when you upgrade. This patch introduces that depmod
> configuration to ensure that the out-of-tree module is always used when
> it is installed, regardless of kernel upgrades.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org>
Thanks for fixing it.
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshe...@ovn.org>
> ---
> rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec.in | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec.in
> b/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec.in
> index ea89d15c8d87..93adb0330cbb 100644
> --- a/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec.in
> +++ b/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-fedora.spec.in
> @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ do
> modname="$(basename ${module})"
> echo "override ${modname%.ko} * extra" >> \
> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/depmod.d/kmod-openvswitch.conf
> + echo "override ${modname%.ko} * weak-updates" >> \
> + $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/etc/depmod.d/kmod-openvswitch.conf
> done
>
> %clean
Fedora spec is much easier to read. Is there way to merge these rpm spec files?
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