[ofa-general] kernel-ib on rhel5

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 15:28 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I wonder, what is the strategy for kernel-ib to exist on a machine with
> the standard RHEL5 kernel installed.  The standard RHEL5 kernel of
> course includes an OFED release and as such modules of the same name as
> the OFED ones.
> 
> I can see that by default, the ofa_kernel.spec installs it's modules
> into /lib/modules/%{KVERSION}/updates but how does that insure than when
> a kernel module is loaded with modprobe that the one
> in /lib/modules/%{KVERSION}/updates will be preferred over the one in
> lib/modules/%{KVERSION}/ (i.e. provided by the RHEL5 kernel RPM)?

module-init-tools and modutils have supported this precedence for some
time now. For modutils, see:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2003-327.html

-- Hal


> Thanx,
> b.
> 
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