Backwards compatible module symlinks

Jon Masters jcm at redhat.com
Fri Mar 30 19:22:54 UTC 2007


Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> At first glance it doesn't seem very hard to do something like this
> on kernel install:
> 
> ln -s raid456.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/kernel/drivers/md/raid4.ko
> ln -s raid456.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/kernel/drivers/md/raid5.ko
> ln -s raid456.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/kernel/drivers/md/raid6.ko
> 
> We could have left mkinitrd alone if the %post script for the kernel that
> combined those three modules into one had done this.

Problem is that then, you're stuck doing that :-)

Jon.




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