On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 05:46:38PM -0700, Ansis Atteka wrote: > This patch fixes a bug where "modprobe openvswitch" command on Ubuntu > distribution would have sometimes tried to load OVS kernel module that > shipped together with Linux Kernel, even though one had also installed > OVS datapath debian package created with module-assistant. Because of > this issue force-reload-kmod command occasionally malfunctioned and > failed to load the right kernel module. > > This bug happened *occasionally* because the default Ubuntu depmod > configuration in /etc/depmod.d/ubuntu.conf is set to look for kernel > modules first in "updates" directory, then in "ubuntu" directory and > then in other directories. If there were two openvswitch.ko modules > in "other directories", then modprobe would have loaded that kernel > module that was nondeterministically listed by file system. > > Signed-off-by: Ansis Atteka <aatt...@nicira.com>
Good catch! I bet that took a lot of care to track down; thanks for doing it! I assume you'll backport this as necessary? Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
