[elrepo] centos 7 e1000e kmod loading kernel version

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 9:50 AM Trevor Hemsley <themsley at voiceflex.com> wrote:
>
> On 21/09/2021 17:27, Steve Cleveland wrote:
> > # modinfo e1000e
> > filename:
> > /lib/modules/3.10.0-1168.42.2.el7.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/e1000e.ko.xz
> > version: 3.2.6k
>
> I did a yum install kmod-e1000e on my Vbox hosted CentOS 7 which was
> using the distro e1000e module for its network connection. The package
> installs OK and modinfo after the reboot says it's using the ELRepo copy
>
> filename:
> /lib/modules/3.10.0-1160.42.2.el7.x86_64/weak-updates/e1000e/e1000e.ko
> version:        3.8.4-NAPI
>
> Mine is kmod-e1000e-3.8.4-4.el7_9.elrepo.x86_64 which is not the same
> version as yours. Try a yum update after installing the elrepo-release
> package - which you need to do anyway so that you get future updates to
> allow it to run with future kernels that break the stable KABI.
>
> Trevor

There was a kABI breakage for kmod-e1000e in the EL7_9 kernels. The
kmod-e1000e package built for the 7.9 GA kernel will not work for
kernel-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7 or later.

As Trevor noted, you need to update kmod-e1000e to get it to work for
the current kernel.

Akemi