On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 08:10:32PM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Chuck Campbell wrote:
If you want to keep the driver in-place even when the kernel updates, you might want to investigate the weak-updates process and how you might get a driver included into that. Pretty much everything you need to make it happen would be on the system already.
Where do I find info about this? I suspect I will need to do this with every kernel update???
how exactly where you planning on managing out-of-tree kernel drivers otherwise ?
I've no idea... I've never had to deal with this before, so I didn't even understand this could be an issue.
It raises more questions for me than I had thought of previously though. I have more homework ahead of me :-)
btw, since this is a stable distro you are using, the chances are that the same driver will work through the life of the product. Try this command : /sbin/weak-modules and register the driver you have against that. Then reinstall the updated kernel and the driver should move along.
I will try this in a few moments. One last observation though, 3Ware has a newer driver for the updated kernel. If I wish to use it, is it a simple matter of replacing the 3w-9xxx.ko file with the appropriate one? If it is more complicated than that, where do I find info about this issue?
I shall try and do some more specific docs on this, in the centos wiki, over the next few days.
Thanks, I'm anxious to learn, since I'll probably need to deploy more systems with this (and other similar) issue(s).
-chuck