[azure][PATCH] UBUNTU: SAUCE: vmbus-rdma: Use _ to separate major and minor host OS version

Marcelo Henrique Cerri marcelo.cerri at canonical.com
Mon Aug 7 14:55:15 UTC 2017


BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1709101

kmod tools seems to not handle properly module names with dots.

Impact:
Currently RDMA drivers names have a dot to separate the major and minor
host OS version number (eg, hv_network_directly_142.0.ko). That causes
some unexpected behavior with the kmod tools.

modprobe ignores everything after the dot, so it's only possible to load
the modules manually with `modprobe hv_network_direct_142` instead of
`modprobe hv_network_direct_142.0`.

Also, after the modules is loaded, lsmod shows some errors when
searching for `/sys/module/hv_network_direct_142.0` while only
`/sys/module/hv_network_direct_142` is available.

Fix:
Replace dots with underscores to separate major and minor host OS
version numbers.

Testcase:
The user should be able to load the drivers with their complete name, eg
`modprobe hv_network_direct_142_0` and lsmod should not show any errors
after the module is loaded.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri at canonical.com>
---
 debian.azure/abi/4.11.0-1005.5/amd64/azure.modules         | 4 ++--
 drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/vmbus-rdma-142.0/Makefile | 4 ++--
 drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/vmbus-rdma-144.0/Makefile | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian.azure/abi/4.11.0-1005.5/amd64/azure.modules b/debian.azure/abi/4.11.0-1005.5/amd64/azure.modules
index adf80fa92cd2..863909400f94 100644
--- a/debian.azure/abi/4.11.0-1005.5/amd64/azure.modules
+++ b/debian.azure/abi/4.11.0-1005.5/amd64/azure.modules
@@ -240,8 +240,8 @@ hid-generic
 hid-hyperv
 hv_balloon
 hv_netvsc
-hv_network_direct_142.0
-hv_network_direct_144.0
+hv_network_direct_142_0
+hv_network_direct_144_0
 hv_sock
 hv_utils
 hyperv_fb
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/vmbus-rdma-142.0/Makefile b/drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/vmbus-rdma-142.0/Makefile
index 8fc23718bcf1..bc825bb4fb0d 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/vmbus-rdma-142.0/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/vmbus-rdma-142.0/Makefile
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-obj-$(CONFIG_HYPERV_INFINIBAND_ND)	+= hv_network_direct_142.0.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_HYPERV_INFINIBAND_ND)	+= hv_network_direct_142_0.o
 
-hv_network_direct_142.0-y := provider.o vmbus_rdma.o hvnd_addr.o
+hv_network_direct_142_0-y := provider.o vmbus_rdma.o hvnd_addr.o
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/vmbus-rdma-144.0/Makefile b/drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/vmbus-rdma-144.0/Makefile
index 19afb983ea70..f55fa77566a8 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/vmbus-rdma-144.0/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/vmbus-rdma/vmbus-rdma-144.0/Makefile
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-obj-$(CONFIG_HYPERV_INFINIBAND_ND)	+= hv_network_direct_144.0.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_HYPERV_INFINIBAND_ND)	+= hv_network_direct_144_0.o
 
-hv_network_direct_144.0-y := provider.o vmbus_rdma.o hvnd_addr.o
+hv_network_direct_144_0-y := provider.o vmbus_rdma.o hvnd_addr.o
-- 
2.7.4





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