It should ideally work. If not, it is a bug. Just to make sure that you are doing the right thing, have you read the following piece of instruction in INSTALL.RHEL.md carefully?
""" On RHEL 6, to build the Open vSwitch kernel module, copy rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files into the RPM sources directory and run: """ On 28 January 2016 at 07:58, Thomas F Herbert <thomasfherb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/28/16 10:27 AM, Guru Shetty wrote: > > > > On 28 January 2016 at 05:48, Thomas F Herbert <thomasfherb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: Thomas F Herbert <thomasfherb...@gmail.com> >> > > The changes that this commit reverts were initially added as part of > commit 9c12d2ec7569a12d9. > So this commit will break the original fix. > > I found this building the kmod on Centos 7 and the file openvswitch.conf > doesn't actually exist. Do Rhel 6 builds of the out-of-tree kmod still work? > > > > >> --- >> rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in | 2 -- >> rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files | 3 --- >> 2 files changed, 5 deletions(-) >> delete mode 100644 rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files >> >> diff --git a/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in b/rhel/ >> openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in >> index 5d46838..6bd58f4 100644 >> --- a/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in >> +++ b/rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec.in >> @@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ Group: System/Kernel >> License: GPLv2 >> URL: http://openvswitch.org/ >> Source0: %{oname}-%{version}.tar.gz >> -Source1: %{oname}-kmod.files >> BuildRoot: %(mktemp -ud >> %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-XXXXXX) >> BuildRequires: %kernel_module_package_buildreqs >> >> @@ -66,7 +65,6 @@ for flavor in %flavors_to_build ; do >> find $INSTALL_MOD_PATH/lib/modules -iname 'modules.*' -exec rm >> {} \; >> done >> install -d %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/depmod.d/ >> -install -m 644 %{oname}.conf %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/depmod.d/ >> >> %clean >> rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT >> diff --git a/rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files b/rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files >> deleted file mode 100644 >> index 357c2e8..0000000 >> --- a/rhel/openvswitch-kmod.files >> +++ /dev/null >> @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ >> -%defattr(644,root,root,755) >> -/lib/modules/%2-%1 >> -/etc/depmod.d/openvswitch.conf >> -- >> 2.5.0 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev mailing list >> dev@openvswitch.org >> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
