[ovs-dev] [PATCH ] debian: place kernel module to satisfy depmod search.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 04:35:32PM -0700, Saurabh Mohan wrote:
> On Ubuntu depmod's search priority is configured in /etc/depmod to be
> updates and then the kernel built-in directory.
> $ cat /etc/depmod.d/ubuntu.conf 
> search updates ubuntu built-in
> 
> Thus change the placement of openvswitch.ko under updates/ not kernel/updates.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Saurabh Mohan <saurabh at cplanenetworks.com>

This appears to be correct, but I'm confused about how this could have
not been noticed for years.  Did something change recently?