Allow pinning kernel versions to work around hardware / driver issues

[chef.git] / cookbooks / hardware / recipes / default.rb

diff --git a/cookbooks/hardware/recipes/default.rb b/cookbooks/hardware/recipes/default.rb
index 3c2f84a681472fdcf64b34ff85ffd959482e989a..620c7d58bb686507dd3321732037f5f2c311871c 100644 (file)
--- a/cookbooks/hardware/recipes/default.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/hardware/recipes/default.rb
@@ -120,6 +120,16 @@ unless unit.nil?
   end
 end
 
+# if we need a different / special kernel version to make the hardware
+# work (e.g: https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/45) then
+# ensure that we have the package installed. the grub template will
+# make sure that this is the default on boot.
+unless node[:hardware][:grub][:kernel] == :latest
+  package "linux-image-#{node[:hardware][:grub][:kernel]}-generic"
+  package "linux-image-extra-#{node[:hardware][:grub][:kernel]}-generic"
+  package "linux-headers-#{node[:hardware][:grub][:kernel]}-generic"
+end
+
 if File.exist?("/etc/default/grub")
   execute "update-grub" do
     action :nothing