Bug 459702

Summary: mkinitrd doesn't pickup ./updates modules
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask>
Component: mkinitrdAssignee: Brian Lane <bcl>
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Description Ask Bjørn Hansen 2008-08-21 13:37:52 UTC 
Description of problem:
I've placed a newer version of a module in ./updates - mkinitrd ignores it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.1.19.6


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:

# find /lib/modules | grep 3w-9  | xargs ls -l | grep 1\.10
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root  82832 Aug  5 09:06 /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 366918 Aug 21 09:33 /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5/updates/3w-9xxx.ko

2. mkinitrd -v  -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.img 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5
....
copy from `/lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5/kernel/drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.ko' [elf64-x86-64] to `/tmp/initrd.Lz8582/lib/3w-9xxx.ko' [elf64-x86-64]


3. (unpack initrd) and 
 # ls -l lib/3w-9xxx.ko 
-rw------- 1 root root 83168 Aug 21 09:37 lib/3w-9xxx.ko

  
Actual results:

The "stock" module file is used.

Expected results:

The module file from the updates directory should be used.
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