[SLL] Cent OS 5 Update - Fails to boot

[Glenn Stone]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 06:31:00PM -0700, Francois Caen wrote:
>On 7/16/07, Eric <eric at kahklen.com> wrote:
>>So each time Cent OS or any distro without my specific driver support
>>has a kernel upgrade that doesn't include my 3ware card drivers
>>natively, I'll have to run through this exercise again?
>
>No. 5.1 should have the right driver. This is only for a few months.
>
>Until then, it's just 2 commands. Nothing to compile:
>
># cp -a /lib/modules/<old-kernel>/updates/ 
>/lib/modules/<new-kernel>/updates/
># mkinitrd -v -f /boot/<new-kernel>.img <new-kernel>

So, what, the modules in the /updates/ directory are deliberately
versionless?

-- Glenn