[finnix] igb network dirver depends on dca module which doesnot get included by finnix-netboot-server
Lars Holowko
Lars.Holowko at quantum.com
Wed Jan 20 10:30:16 PST 2010
>On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Lars Holowko
<Lars.Holowko at quantum.com> wrote:
>> After applying the patch below and re-running
>> /usr/sbin/finnix-netboot-server, everything seems to work.
>
>Good catch, but I do want to re-work that section now that you've
>alerted me to it. Currently it uses the findmods sub on those base
>modules (loop, unionfs, etc), but then just copies kernel/drivers/net/
>into place blindly afterwards, which is a problem since dca is not in
>kernel/drivers/net/. findmods is capable of recursing through module
>dependencies, so the final solution should be to change the "cp -a"
>line to a "find; findmods; cp" loop that copies over all net modules,
>dependencies and all, to the destination.
Thanks Ryan, this sounds much better than my hack. I bet the Intel
drivers are not the only ones with dependencies.
Lars
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