Mark Hahn wrote: >> It's useful because it will automatically build and install existing >> kernel modules for newly-installed kernels. Many vendors ship drivers as >> RPMs separate from the kernel, so they won't get updated when the kernel >> is updated unless you use something like dkms. > > interesting. the distro-based approach is that when you update your > kernel, the package manager will naturally also update any packages > which are dependent on the kernel version. that certainly works fine > if you're using normal (binary, precompiled) packages. I guess the > issue with rebuilding packages is that they are, in some sense, > version-flexible (can be rebuilt for new kernels). the issue, though > is that you don't know whether the package will still build for the > new kernel until you try - it might have dependencies on a symbol that > gets removed from the kernel update, for instance.
Right, although distributions like RHEL do a good job of keeping the kernel unchanged from an API perspective within a given release. -- -- Skylar Thompson (sky...@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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