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authorBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2012-09-10 10:13:07 -0700
committerBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>2012-09-10 10:13:07 -0700
commitbeffe87554210fb43be20eb23251c87e5eb4b529 (patch)
tree495da51aa8778861b76a8cd43429118ce0692b42
parent3a8d38c88e26f9f76f3c60efbcbead02240c26d0 (diff)
downloadopenvswitch-beffe87554210fb43be20eb23251c87e5eb4b529.tar.gz
INSTALL: Recommend installing kernel modules with "make modules_install".
Reported-by: Valentin Bud <valentin@hackaserver.com> Acked-by: Kyle Mestery <kmestery@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
-rw-r--r--AUTHORS1
-rw-r--r--INSTALL5
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 2389b5a08..70257e549 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ Stephen Hemminger shemminger@vyatta.com
Takayuki HAMA t-hama@cb.jp.nec.com
Teemu Koponen koponen@nicira.com
Timothy Chen tchen@nicira.com
+Valentin Bud valentin@hackaserver.com
Vishal Swarankar vishal.swarnkar@gmail.com
Vjekoslav Brajkovic balkan@cs.washington.edu
Voravit T. voravit@kth.se
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 671c4a49d..4d94c52a7 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -261,6 +261,11 @@ Prerequisites section, follow the procedure below to build.
you do not understand what this means or do not know if your driver
will work, do not set this.
+ Once you verify that the kernel modules load properly, you should
+ install them:
+
+ % make modules_install
+
7. Initialize the configuration database using ovsdb-tool, e.g.:
% mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/openvswitch