[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] fedora: Prioritize OVS modules in weak-updates.

[Joe Stringer]

Thanks for the reviews all, I pushed this to master.

On 29 July 2016 at 11:53, Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org> wrote:
> 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 <joe at ovn.org>
>> ---
>
> It's been a while since I looked at kmod stuff, but looks ok.
>
> Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
>
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