Okay, I just did a quick test on one of my kmod-forcedeth systems.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?
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/forcedet h.ko -> /lib/modules/3.10.0-327.el7.x8 6_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/forcedet h.ko -> /lib/modules/3.10.0-327.el7.x8 6_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 ..