On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Nicholas L. Soms <nsoms at 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