On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Denice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Denice wrote:
>
> The forcedeth driver is not supported at SL7, but is available in
>> elrepo.
>>
>> If this driver was installed previously as a kmod driver then it should
>> have
>> worked on the 7.4 upgrade; you probably should look for it with:
>>
>> rpm -qa |grep forcedeth
>>
>> Do you recall how it was installed?
>>
>
> Okay, I just did a quick test on one of my kmod-forcedeth systems.
> After installing the testing kernel my weak-updates links for this
> driver do not exist:
>
> # rpm -q kernel
> kernel-3.10.0-514.21.2.el7.x86_64
> kernel-3.10.0-514.26.1.el7.x86_64
> kernel-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64
>
> # pwd
> /lib/modules
>
> # find . -name forcedeth.ko -ls
> 612005  108 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       109760 Jun 16  2016
> ./3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64/extra/forcedeth/forcedeth.ko
> 11290331    0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           63 Jun 21 15:23
> ./3.10.0-514.21.2.el7.x86_64/weak-updates/forcedeth/forcedeth.ko ->
> /lib/modules/3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64/extra/forcedeth/forcedeth.ko
> 224434    0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           63 Aug  9 08:07
> ./3.10.0-514.26.1.el7.x86_64/weak-updates/forcedeth/forcedeth.ko ->
> /lib/modules/3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64/extra/forcedeth/forcedeth.ko
>
> I did not reboot the node, since clearly my forcedeth driver is not
> there for this new kernel; removing this new kernel for now ..
>

​It must be one of those that need to be rebuilt against the new kernel due
to kABI breakage. You can expect to see an update to the package from
ELRepo. :)

​Akemi​