HARD: why do old 2.6 kernel modules load?

I have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 system running on an
HP BL20p G2
blade with a couple of QLogic 2344 chips connected to a
DEC/Compaq/HP
MSA1000 SAN controller.  Getting the Array Controller
Utility software
to detect the MSA1000 has been a problem.

HP has a support pack that contains a newer qla driver
package.  I
installed the support package, but this didn't help.  After
a lot of
wasted motion, I realized that even on re-booting, the OLD
driver
package was being loaded!  (As shown in logs and
/proc/scsi/qla2xxx/0
and 1).  I did a 'modprobe -r -v qla2xxx_conf qla2300
qla2xxx', and then
did a 'modprobe -v' on each one to re-load them.  The new
ones loaded
and now the ACU detects the MSA1000.

BUT!

In /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/,
the NEW
drivers are named qla2300.ko, qla2xxx.ko, and
qla2xxx_conf.ko, and the
OLD drivers are named qla2300.ko.orig, qla2xxx.ko.orig, and
qla2xxx_conf.ko.orig!  The
/lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/modules.* files
mention the .ko files, NOT the .ko.orig files.

How are the old driver modules getting loaded???

I have not been following Linux driver module details, but I
have found
that 2.6 kernel module loading is somewhat different from
2.4 kernel
module loading.  I have no idea whether this affects this
particular
problem.

Any help, or pointers to references or other resources?

Thanks!  ;-/

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Joseph S D Yao <jsdytux.org> writes:

> How are the old driver modules getting loaded???

Most likely, via an initial ramdisk whose image you'll need
to
regenerate.

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Joseph S D Yao <jsdytux.org> writes:

> How are the old driver modules getting loaded???

  Initrd? 

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On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:29:26PM -0400, John SJ Anderson
wrote:
> Joseph S D Yao <jsdytux.org> writes:
> 
> > How are the old driver modules getting loaded???
> 
>   Initrd? 


OK, so it wasn't hard, I was overlooking that.  It turns
out that the
default install here protects /boot by mounting it
ro,nosuid.  Which is
fine until one runs an automated patch script that updates
drivers.  I
just needed a boot in the head to put it all together.

Thank you very much!!!


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