[DRBD-user] 9.1.14 upgrade issue

[Akemi Yagi]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 9:13 AM Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg at linbit.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 08:54:39AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> > Hi Nigel,
> >
> > kmod-drbd90-9.1.14-2.el8_7.x86_64.rpm will start syncing to our mirrors
> > shortly.
>
> Since we modularized the "transport",
> DRBD consists of (at least) two modules,
> "drbd" and "drbd_transport_tcp".
>
> You ship
> ./lib/modules/4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.x86_64/extra/drbd90/drbd.ko
>
> ./lib/modules/4.18.0-425.10.1.el8_7.x86_64/extra/drbd90/drbd_transport_tcp.ko
>
> and a depmod conf snippet in
> ./etc/depmod.d/kmod-drbd90.conf
>
> which contains
> ------
> override drbd90 * weak-updates/drbd90
> ------
>
> And that does not make any sense at all.
> Because it does not match any module
> (unless you patched in some funny alias, which I doubt).
> Also it does not even attempt to match the transport tcp.
>
> It should contain something like
> ------
> override drbd * weak-updates/drbd90
> override drbd_transport_tcp * weak-updates/drbd90
> ------
>
> after a depmod run with a corrected depmod conf,
> # modinfo -F filename drbd drbd_transport_tcp
> should report the same path for both drbd and drbd_transport_tcp, and
> not find them in different directories with potentially different versions.
> (that would explain the "symbols" errors)
>
> Also you may want to check which path takes precedence,
> and which path you _want_ to take precedence,
> the "extra" or the "weak-updates" one,
> should you have both a "built for this kernel version"
> and a "compatible with this kernel version" module installed.
>
> Cheers,
>     Lars
>

Hi Lars,

Thank you for your notes. I'll have more detailed look and see if I can fix
the problem.

Akemi
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