-# Check /etc/modprobe.conf to see if there are any specified
-# drivers associated with network (ethX) or hard drives. Normally
-# one might find something like:
-#
-# alias eth0 xennet
-# alias scsi_hostadapter xenblk
-#
-# XXX This doesn't look beyond /etc/modprobe.conf, eg. in /etc/modprobe.d/
+=head2 inspect_linux_kernel
+
+ my $kernel_hash = inspect_linux_kernel($g, $vmlinuz_path, $package_format);
+
+inspect_linux_kernel returns a hash describing the target linux kernel. For the
+contents of the hash, see the I<kernels> structure described under
+L</inspect_in_detail>.
+
+=cut
+
+sub inspect_linux_kernel
+{
+ my ($g, $path, $package_format) = @_;
+
+ my %kernel = ();
+
+ $kernel{path} = $path;
+
+ # If this is a packaged kernel, try to work out the name of the package
+ # which installed it. This lets us know what to install to replace it with,
+ # e.g. kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-hugemem, kernel-PAE
+ if($package_format eq "rpm") {
+ my $package;
+ eval { $package = $g->command(['rpm', '-qf', '--qf',
+ '%{NAME}', $path]); };
+ $kernel{package} = $package if defined($package);;
+ }
+
+ # Try to get the kernel version by running file against it
+ my $version;
+ my $filedesc = $g->file($path);
+ if($filedesc =~ /^$path: Linux kernel .*\bversion\s+(\S+)\b/) {
+ $version = $1;
+ }
+
+ # Sometimes file can't work out the kernel version, for example because it's
+ # a Xen PV kernel. In this case try to guess the version from the filename
+ else {
+ if($path =~ m{/boot/vmlinuz-(.*)}) {
+ $version = $1;
+
+ # Check /lib/modules/$version exists
+ if(!$g->is_dir("/lib/modules/$version")) {
+ warn __x("Didn't find modules directory {modules} for kernel ".
+ "{path}", modules => "/lib/modules/$version",
+ path => $path);
+
+ # Give up
+ return undef;
+ }
+ } else {
+ warn __x("Couldn't guess kernel version number from path for ".
+ "kernel {path}", path => $path);