dkms + megaraid_sas and kernel update

[Rainer Traut]

Yes...

Am 16.12.2008 17:39, schrieb Mark Baxter:
> Any further news on this? I've searched the list but can't find
> anything.
>
> We've just done our first RHEL 5 installs on some 2950s and 1950s and
> are losing the Dell distributed module after the kernel upgrade.
>
> Regards,
>


Latest statement from Dell is;
you should change the module search order in /etc/depmod.d/depmod.conf.dist

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2008-November/037804.html

I doubt this was originally planned by dell but they don't seem to have 
another solution.

Rainer



>
> -----Original Message-----
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> To: Rainer Traut
> Cc: jcm at redhat.com; Matt Domsch; linux-poweredge
> Subject: Re: dkms + megaraid_sas and kernel update
>
> Hi all,
>
> any news on this?
>
> Was my conclusion right, that El5 from EL4 is different in the way it
> uses modules from 'weak-updates'?
>
> So dkms (under EL5) should always put its modules to the 'extras' dir?
>
> Thanks
> Rainer
>
>