Bug 479415

Summary: kmod-gnbd built for 2.6.18-98.el5
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Marian Ganisin <mganisin>
Component: gnbd-kmodAssignee: Chris Feist <cfeist>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Cluster QE <mspqa-list>
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Version: 5.3CC: cluster-maint, edamato, syeghiay
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Description Marian Ganisin 2009-01-09 13:39:04 UTC
Description of problem:
All kmod-gnbd packages in latest RHEL 5.3 RC are built against kernel 2.6.18-98.el5, however current kernel version is 2.6.18-128.el5.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL5.3-Server-20090106.0
kmod-gnbd-0.1.5-2.el5.i686.rpm
kmod-gnbd-PAE-0.1.5-2.el5.i686.rpm
kmod-gnbd-xen-0.1.5-2.el5.i686.rpm

Additional info:
$ pwd
/mnt/redhat/rel-eng/RHEL5.3-Server-20090106.0/5/i386/os
$ ls ./Server/kernel-2*.rpm
./Server/kernel-2.6.18-128.el5.i686.rpm
$ rpm -qlp ./ClusterStorage/kmod-gnbd-0.1.5-2.el5.i686.rpm
/lib/modules/2.6.18-98.el5
/lib/modules/2.6.18-98.el5/extra
/lib/modules/2.6.18-98.el5/extra/gnbd
/lib/modules/2.6.18-98.el5/extra/gnbd/gnbd.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-98.el5/kernel

Comment 2 Chris Feist 2009-02-24 22:57:54 UTC
This isn't an issue because 5.3 kernel modules are not dependedent on any one kernel version.  You can modprobe modules that were built for older kernels.