Dear collegues!
I've got one question about drbd-kmdl packages. As I can see at $ rpm -qp --qf "%{DESCRIPTION}" kmod-drbd-8.0.16-5.el5_3.i686.rpm This package provides the drbd kernel modules built for the Linux kernel 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 for the i686 family of processors.
So, the question is - kmod-drbd is for kernel 128.4.1 (or build for this kernel version), but current kernel is 164.11.1. Does that means that kmod-drbd should be rebuild for each kernel or it works vell without rebuild?
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Nicholas L. Soms nsoms@linux-ink.ru wrote:
Dear collegues!
I've got one question about drbd-kmdl packages. As I can see at $ rpm -qp --qf "%{DESCRIPTION}" kmod-drbd-8.0.16-5.el5_3.i686.rpm This package provides the drbd kernel modules built for the Linux kernel 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 for the i686 family of processors.
So, the question is - kmod-drbd is for kernel 128.4.1 (or build for this kernel version), but current kernel is 164.11.1. Does that means that kmod-drbd should be rebuild for each kernel or it works vell without rebuild?
No, it is a kernel version independent, kABI-tracking kernel module. So, it should survive each kernel update. No need for rebuilding. (It is different from drbd-kmdl)
Akemi
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Nicholas L. Soms nsoms@linux-ink.ru wrote:
Dear collegues!
I've got one question about drbd-kmdl packages. As I can see at $ rpm -qp --qf "%{DESCRIPTION}" kmod-drbd-8.0.16-5.el5_3.i686.rpm This package provides the drbd kernel modules built for the Linux kernel 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 for the i686 family of processors.
So, the question is - kmod-drbd is for kernel 128.4.1 (or build for this kernel version), but current kernel is 164.11.1. Does that means that kmod-drbd should be rebuild for each kernel or it works vell without rebuild?
No, it is a kernel version independent, kABI-tracking kernel module. So, it should survive each kernel update. No need for rebuilding. (It is different from drbd-kmdl)
Oh, and yes, that description should be changed to reflect the fact. :-D
Ralph? Are you the dev in charge of the maintenance?
Akemi
OK, thank you!
One more question. Does anyone have the same problem - when installing drbd-kmdl package via yum, madwifi packages needs to remove. May be I missed something, but I also need madwifi packages =)
2010/3/11 Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Nicholas L. Soms nsoms@linux-ink.ru
wrote:
Dear collegues!
I've got one question about drbd-kmdl packages. As I can see at $ rpm -qp --qf "%{DESCRIPTION}" kmod-drbd-8.0.16-5.el5_3.i686.rpm This package provides the drbd kernel modules built for the Linux kernel 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 for the i686 family of processors.
So, the question is - kmod-drbd is for kernel 128.4.1 (or build for this kernel version), but current kernel is 164.11.1. Does that means that kmod-drbd should be rebuild for each kernel or it works vell without rebuild?
No, it is a kernel version independent, kABI-tracking kernel module. So, it should survive each kernel update. No need for rebuilding. (It is different from drbd-kmdl)
Oh, and yes, that description should be changed to reflect the fact. :-D
Ralph? Are you the dev in charge of the maintenance?
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Nicholas L. Soms nsoms@linux-ink.ru wrote:
OK, thank you!
One more question. Does anyone have the same problem - when installing drbd-kmdl package via yum, madwifi packages needs to remove. May be I missed something, but I also need madwifi packages =)
There is some confusion here. Are you talking about drbd-kmdl (from ATrpms) or kmod-drbd? Your original post indicated you were installing kmod-drbd.
Akemi
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
Ralph? Are you the dev in charge of the maintenance?
Looks like I have to be :)
Cheers,
Ralph
No, it is a kernel version independent, kABI-tracking kernel module. So, it should survive each kernel update. No need for rebuilding. (It is different from drbd-kmdl)
Akemi, Funny, there was just a thread on the extra repo's drbd packages today in the drbd list. Given those packages have bugs and are not really maintained, along with the fact of how easy it is to make rpm's directly from source (lacking kmod though) might it be wise to drop them?
jlc
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcasale@activenetwerx.com wrote:
No, it is a kernel version independent, kABI-tracking kernel module. So, it should survive each kernel update. No need for rebuilding. (It is different from drbd-kmdl)
Akemi, Funny, there was just a thread on the extra repo's drbd packages today in the drbd list. Given those packages have bugs and are not really maintained, along with the fact of how easy it is to make rpm's directly from source (lacking kmod though) might it be wise to drop them?
jlc
I saw a brief discussion on this subject (maintaining drbd etc) on the centos-devel IRC channel not long ago. Maybe this matter should be discussed in the -devel mailing list ?? I would like to hear from core CentOS devs.
Akemi
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