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