On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Alan Bartlett <ajb at elrepo.org> wrote: > On 11/09/2009, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: >> > So, I do not agree that kmod needs to obsolete the older one. I think >> > that having the older kmod there in case you need to boot into the older >> > kernel is not bad. >> >> That is the statement I have difficulty understanding. :) In case you >> need to boot into the older kernel ... the drbd module from -83 should >> be there as a symlink. Or, if you mean boot into the older kernel to >> get drbd.ko *82*, then you would have to reinstall drbd82. >> >> In other words, if drbd83 obsoletes drbd82, there is no merit for >> still having drbd.ko (82) around because drbd82 gets removed upon the >> 82 -> 83 upgrade. If someone needs to go back to the 82, he needs to >> manually install drbd82 anyway. (hope I'm making sense here) :-) >> >> One (minor) drawback of keeping both kmods is that each time >> /sbin/meak-module is run, it has to do extra work going through all >> installed kernels, once for kmod-drbd82 and another time for >> kmod-drbd83. >> >> Akemi >> - now completely hiding under a huge rock > > A question in two parts -- for Akemi to consider: > > Are the kmod-drbd* packages kABI tracking? Or are they kernel version dependant? > > Alan. The recent version of kmod-drbd82 is kABI-tracking. kmod-drbd83 is new and is also kABI-tracking. Akemi