What is weak-modules?

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Aug 1 12:42:38 UTC 2006


Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I saw this in the output of a "yum update" for the first time today :
> 
>   Installing: kernel                #####################[ 57/128]
> **** weak-modules did not process this kernel ****
> weak-updates links not updated for 2.6.17-1.2488.fc6
> Please run /sbin/weak-modules --add-kernel `uname -r`
> in order to update kernel module compatibility links.
> 
> That weak-modules utility is part of module-init-tools, but there is no
> man page nor documentation about it in the package. Actually, the
> package doesn't even contain a copy of the GPL, which seems like
> another issue.
> 
> Anyway, back to the weak-modules. Looks like it's because of
> yesterday's changes with "Warn rather than exit if we can't process
> weak-updates on new kernel", as the %changelog seems to indicate that
> it has been there since June.
> 
> Looks like a Fedora/RH specific addition. What is it useful for?
> 

Looks related to http://www.kerneldrivers.org/KernelDrivers.org. 
Framework for kernel module packages.

Rahul




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