On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:09:38PM -0700, Joe Stringer 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>
> ---

It's been a while since I looked at kmod stuff, but looks ok.

Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <f...@sysclose.org>


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