[elrepo] 3w-9xxxx missing from ramdisk in 8.2

[Akemi Yagi]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:08 PM Gerwin Krist <gerwinkrist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I upgradeded an server from EL 8.1 to EL 8.2. And luckily I always check the init ram before booting the server. This is from the current running kernel:
>
> [EL8/INT] [root at i-xxxxxxxx boot]$] lsinitrd initramfs-4.18.0-147.el8.x86_64.img | grep 3w
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root            0 Sep  6  2019 usr/lib/modules/4.18.0-147.el8.x86_64/extra/3w-9xxx
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        80049 Sep  6  2019 usr/lib/modules/4.18.0-147.el8.x86_64/extra/3w-9xxx/3w-9xxx.ko
>
> But when I do this on the new 8.2 kernel, I get nothing:
>
> [EL8/INT] [root at i-xxxxxxxx boot]$] lsinitrd lsinitrd initramfs-4.18.0-193.13.2.el8_2.x86_64.img | grep 3w
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> I have kmod-3w-9xxx-2.26.02.014-3.el8_2.elrepo.x86_64 installed on the server and the module is there in /lib/modules/4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64/extra/3w-9xxx.
>
> Could anyone tell me what I did wrong? And more important howto get the module in the initram image again :-)
>
> You help is appreciated!
>
> Regards,
> Gerwin

When you updated to EL 8.2, did you get
kernel-4.18.0-193.13.2.el8_2.x86_64 ?? How about the GA kernel?

lsinitrd initramfs-4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64.img | grep 3w

Also, is it a typo that you have 'lsinitrd' twice on the command line?

Akemi