On 05/02/2017 14:30, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 02/05/17 09:30, Stephen Morris wrote:
I am particularly interested in whether the last two are produced because the
checking process successfully found usable devices that could be used for the network,
as opposed to devices that Network Manager has been told to connect to at boot, and if
it is the latter option how can the network be online when dkms has not finished
compiling and installing into the kernel the driver for the only device that Network
Manager has been told to connect to boot.
One other thing, which may not be relevant to your current situation but I thought I'd
mention.
I've not had the need to use dkms lately. However, it was my understanding that the
kernel modules for newly installed kernels are built at the time the new kernel is
installed. This being triggered by /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms script being called.
However, if it is done anything like the akmods process you have to wait a while before
rebooting as there may be no indication the modules are being rebuilt in the background
after the install of the latest kernel.
Hi Ed,
From what I've read, DKMS will compile the driver after a new
kernel is installed if the right parameter is supplied on the make
command it has been told to use.
At boot time DKMS will run and check if the source modules it has
been told to build and install have been added to the running kernel and
if not it will undertake those actions.
The situation that prompted this mail was where to test the auto
build functionality in DKMS I forced the boot time building.
I've checked the /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms script and I'm not
sure its working properly (I will need to check what the autoinstaller
is doing). It seems to me that the autoinstaller is being run against
the kernel identified by $kern_inst, which without knowing what Fedora
is doing, I would have assumed is set to the name of the running kernel,
which if I am correct it seems that DKMS is building the specified
module against the newly installed kernel headers and installing into
the new kernel (this is if the make parameter that identifies the kernel
version to build against is specified, which in my case is specified in
dkms.conf).
regards,
Steve
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