TIPC Kernel Module in Linux

[Corey Kovacs]

It certainly is. As long as you package the module for a specific kernel
and enforce adherence you should be fine. If an upgraded kernel is
required, then you'll need to rebuild the module rpm and upgrade that as
well. You'd simply need to have the module rpm require the specific kernel,
and place the binary module in the /lib/modules/<uname -r> dir structure.

There isn't much you can't package using rpm. I've seen a demo of creating
an rpm for an installed baseline oracle instance. You have to know what
oracle is doing and why, but if you have that, it's tedious but not too
hard to package third party stuff.

-C



On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Parvez Shaikh <parvez.h.shaikh at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We're using RHEL 5.5. Uname -a gives following output -
>
> Linux xxxxx 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Fri May 7 01:43:09 EDT 2010 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> We want to use TIPC on this and for this we need to build TIPC kernel
> module, insert module whenever needed.
>
> The question I have is, is it possible to ship kernel modules as rpms?
>
> How to ship pre-built kernel modules without having to build them on target
> machines?
>
> Thanks,
> Parvez
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