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​