Wow, Veit, thanks so much for taking time to provide those details!
> -----Original Message----- > From: Veit Wahlich [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 3:54 AM > To: Eric Robinson <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [DRBD-user] Updating Kernel w/out Updating DRBD > > Well, I assume you are on el7 here. Adapt to other distros if required. > > 1. Install dkms, for el7 it is available in EPEL: > > # yum install dkms > > 2. Untar the drbd tarball in /usr/src/, for drbd 8.4.11-1, you should now > have a > directory /usr/src/drbd-8.4.11-1/. > > 3. Create a file /usr/src/drbd-8.4.11-1/dkms.conf with this content: > > PACKAGE_NAME="drbd" > PACKAGE_VERSION="8.4.11-1" > MAKE="make -C drbd KDIR=/lib/modules/${kernelver}/build" > BUILT_MODULE_NAME[0]=drbd > DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]=/kernel/drivers/block > BUILT_MODULE_LOCATION[0]=drbd > CLEAN="make -C drbd clean" > AUTOINSTALL=yes > > 4. Register drbd with dkms, so dkms knows about it: > > # dkms add -m drbd -v 8.4.11-1 > > 5. Build the module of the desired version for the current kernel: > > # dkms build -m drbd -v 8.4.11-1 > > 6. Install the module of the desired version to the kernel's module > tree: > > # dkms install -m drbd -v 8.4.11-1 > > You should now be able to use drbd. > > dkms installs a hook that will automatically rebuild the module once you > install > a new kernel{,-devel} package. > On rpm-based distros (maybe also others, I have not tested) and depending on > configuration, dkms also builds rpms for the new kmods, so all files dkms > writes > are being registered with the package management. > > If you want to remove a dkms installed module, you may simply use: > > # dkms remove -m drbd -v 8.4.11-1 --all > > --all removes the module from all kernel module trees. > > Starting with drbd 9.0, the source tarball also includes an almost ready to > use > dkms.conf file in the debian/ subdir. It is not specific to Debian. May may > want > to copy it to .. and edit the module version number. > Please note that drbd 9.0 has 2 kernel module files (dkms.ko and > drbd_transport_tcp.ko) and the module source changed to src/drbd/, so with > drbd 9.0 use the the dkms.conf file provided with the tarball instead of my > example dkms.conf above. > > Best regards, > // Veit > > > Am Freitag, den 22.06.2018, 08:43 +0000 schrieb Eric Robinson: > > I'm familiar with the --with-km switch when building drbd, but I don't see > anything in the documentation that allows building an akmod or dkms version > instead. How would I do that? > > > > Also, I find it odd that the option to build from source is only in > > the DRBD 8.3 User Guide and was left out of the 8.4 and 9.X User > > Guides. (I'm sure the reason is obvious to everyone else I just missed > > something.) > > > > --Eric > > _______________________________________________ drbd-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user
