Bug 80186
| Summary: | kernel updates and third party drivers | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Michael A. Peters <mpeters> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | mitr |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:40:18 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description of problem: When third party drivers such as for the nvidia nforce2 features or the nvidia video cards are present, and the stock kernel is updated via up2date, the third party drivers have to be manually set up for the new kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): AFAIK, always. Additional info: What I would suggest is that Red Hat publish a guideline for vendors of third party kernel modules. They would put their modules in /lib/[vendor name]/[kernel version/ i.e. /lib/nvidia/2.4.18/ in the %post script of the kernel rpm, have it look for /lib/*/%{version} for kernel modules and create the necessary symlinks in /lib/modules/%{version}-%{release} so that the kernel modules will be available to the patched kernel through boot scripts when it is installed.