[elrepo] Bad installation of kmod-nvidia kmod-nvidia-384.90-1.el7_4.elrepo.x86_64

[Henry Katz]

Hi Manuel,

Thanks for enlightening me!

Henry
On 09/27/2017 04:27 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 09/27/2017 11:16 PM, hk-vndr at iscs-i.com wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When installing this driver with kernel-3.10.0-693.2.2 the driver
>> actually goes into this directory:
>>
>> # find /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/
>> /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/
>> /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/extra
>> /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/extra/nvidia
>> /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia-modeset.ko
>> /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia-uvm.ko
>> /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia.ko
>> /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64/extra/nvidia/nvidia-drm.ko
>>
>> instead of the correct one:
>>
>> # du -sk /lib/modules/*
>> 40940 /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64
>> 51676 /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64
>>
>> This just seems incorrect and looking to correct to rule out as
>> source of another issue.
>>
> It is correct as it is. The modules shipped by ELRepo take advantage
> of the guaranteed kABI compatibility of the kernels and use the
> weak-module mechanism to make sure they are active no matter what
> kernel minor version is running by creating symlinks for all installed
> kernels.
>
> You can read more details about this mechanism at
> https://access.redhat.com/articles/9749